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...written three fantasy-mystery novels—“Point of Hopes”, “Point of Dreams” and “The Armor of Light”—as well as a short story called “The Carmen Miranda Gambit.” Barnett died this May from breast cancer that spread to her brain. “What a rare and wonderful partnership they had,” Sturgis says. “It just crackled with energy—they inspired not only each other...
...street credibility. So, while Hamas's leaders had hoped to put the issue of how it relates to Israel on the back burner while it got on with governing the Palestinian territories, international financial pressure on Hamas brought on by the U.S. and European blockade - and now Abbas's gambit - has forced them to address the question sooner than they would have liked. Their move, Friday, to withdraw the security forces they put on the streets in Gaza to challenge Fatah suggests Hamas is inclined to cool the temperature of intra-Palestinian rivalries...
...trick so far is to set a dollar limit every time I open my gas cap. The idea is always to spend the same amount--$50, say--and drive as far as I can on what it buys me, even if it's not as far as yesterday. That gambit works well for a week or two, I find, but then it gradually stops working because of the same sort of sloppy mental accounting that prompts me twice a year to cancel my HBO subscription while simultaneously buying more cell-phone minutes...
...that Bing Whatnot, blest if I can see what you see in him." "Sir," replied Elizabeth loftily, "you are not supposed to see all we see." But she can also unbend delightfully. "Often she has caught my eye when a slightly pompous person is executing a ceremonial gambit," confesses an old friend of Elizabeth's, "and we both have to look away hastily to keep from laughing...
...this climate, seeking Sistani's support for slapping down the Shi'ite coalition may be a risky gambit. The Ayatollah is leery of cooperating with the U.S. in the best of times, and if he perceives its objective is to limit the Shi'ites power won at the ballot box, Sistani may push back. It was, after all, pressure from the Ayatollah that originally forced the U.S. to abandon plans to handpick an Iraqi government and instead allow it to be chosen in a democratic election.? And if the Shi'ite political leaders are beginning to turn...