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...petrified--it was because a poll of listeners clearly supported keeping Liddy on the air. Sure enough, those calling in to support Liddy would be innocent and good people. They watched the aftermath of bombing with the utmost curiosity. As long as nobody they knew or loved had fallen victim, lying helpless and hopeless under the collapsed building, the entire event was merely news only for them. They might even find the non-traditional, unheard-of rhetoric on the air waves interesting. Truth be told, however, to some who view our world in different eyes, these talk shows offer nothing...
...American photographer named Richard. In the course of the few years covered in the novel's scope, starting in 1987, he makes five visits to Cuba, and in each one he becomes progressively more embroiled in the mysteries and particular frustrations of the place, not least because he has fallen in love with a Cuban girl called Lourdes...
...story, though, he is depicted as a belligerent suitor who chases young women down dark streets and yet, incongruously, is so shy that he hangs up the phone the first time he calls Robin Givens (Kristen Wilson), his future wife, to ask her out on a date. Fallen heroes always retain a certain mystery, but they needn't be this inscrutable...
Yesterday was Israel's Independence Day. It is celebrated immediately following the remembrance day commemorating Israel's fallen who have made the independence celebration possible. The proximity of the two days is a constant reminder of the price Israel has paid for its independence...
...rules of timing and location should make Barry Rutenberg's profitable homebuilding business especially robust these days. His Gainesville, Florida, company is in one of the fastest-growing parts of the fast-growing Southeast, and the spring buying season is under way. Money is easy: fixed-rate mortgages have fallen to 8.2% for a 30-year loan. But fewer people are poking through his developments, and Rutenberg recently sold a home for $208,000, at a loss of $24,000. "This was the first time I had to sell a home below cost this decade," he says...