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...Arafat's Force 17 élite guard, killing two people and wounding at least 60. Foreign Minister Shimon Peres said the bombardment of Gaza and Ramallah was a warning to Yasser Arafat to discipline his militant supporters, but the Palestinian leader said the uprising would continue "until the Palestinian flag is raised on the walls, churches and mosques of holy Jerusalem." Israeli troops shot dead three Palestinians in subsequent clashes in the Gaza Strip. The U.S. blocked a U.N. Security Council resolution calling for international observers to help end the conflict, while U.S. President George W. Bush blamed Arafat...
...October 1999. This might have served as a confidence builder for the University of Washington, which unveiled Desai's $2 million pledge at a $10,000 ceremony in February 2000. The accompanying press release listed Desai as CEO of Logical Information Machines, which should have been a red flag, since he never worked for the company...
...role is a giver and a taker, and nothing comes cheap," Probst said, his eyes flickering fire. He scolded them a while for burning through their rations, and then he asked for their shelter - "the tarps and that big ol' Texas flag" - for a fresh supply of rice. The tribe held out for 25 fishing hooks. The deal was done. And suddenly the little piggies were eating fish, and building their second house, this one made of sticks. Spirits were high again...
...Though the mammoth exhibition attempts to stress the movement's international dimension, it ultimately recognizes that Pop Art is as quintessentially American as Jasper Johns' U.S. flag - one of the show's highlights - and serves as both an affirmation and a critique of modern American values. The show focuses on the period from 1956 to 1968 - that exuberant era between victory in World War II and defeat in Vietnam, between the bland complacency of the Eisenhower years and the twitchy paranoia of Nixon's divided nation. It was a time of prosperity and materialism that embraced such pop-cultural Meccas...
With other corporations, the sticking point isn't phone charges but taxes. Most cruise ships are not registered under a U.S. flag, rendering the expenses nondeductible. But tax lawyers have found ways to circumnavigate the problem. For example, if a company with an overseas branch in a foreign port has a land-based meeting there, then a related cruise could be considered "luxury water transportation." Tax deductible...