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...Washington Post. "I was cynical about Iraq. But when I saw the Iraqi people voting three weeks ago, 8 million of them, it was the start of a new Arab world. The Syrian people, the Egyptian people, all say that something is changing. The Berlin Wall has fallen...
...result in 2002, when Penn, Princeton, and Yale each finished the season with that exact record. The excitement of the playoff atmosphere consumed the league. But what if Penn had found an extra point against Columbia during the league’s opening weekend. Likewise, what if Princeton had fallen to the Lions 49-48 on the final weekend of the season, rather than taking the contest by the same margin. It’s not hard to imagine a few bounces of the ball, and not any change in the level of talent, that could have provided those scenarios...
Maybury-Lewis at first refused to explain the scratches—which the incident report notes “appeared to be scratches made by finger nails”—and later stated he had fallen down some stairs, according to the report...
...Social Security "private accounts," Arizona Republican Sen. John Kyl snapped "personal accounts." The surprised reporter corrected herself, saying "personal accounts,? and only then did Kyl answer the question. Later that day, Democratic Senator Harry Reid, asked about Bush's plan for "personal accounts," riffed about how the reporter had fallen into a trap laid by Frank Luntz, a Republican pollster who reportedly advises the party on word choice, and then ripped Bush's plan for "private accounts...
...Danny Boyle, the English director of Millions, a nimble, touching parable about the mystical visions of a boy on whom a sack of stolen money has literally fallen. (He thinks it came from heaven.) "You can't put tears in their eyes for a weepy scene," says Boyle, making his first kids' film (after the R-rated trio Trainspotting, The Beach and 28 Days Later). "You have to actually find out if they can do it. And if they can't, then you do the scene without the tears." In the department-store scene it was better, more delicate...