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...Nassar, a member of the radical Islamist group Hamas, who they suspected was planning a suicide bombing in Israel. Later that night, the Israelis captured 10 members of a Hamas cell in the West Bank, including, they believed, the mastermind of a bus bombing in the city of Ramat Gan on July 24. The sweep also led to the seizure of three ready-to-go bombs, a car fixed to explode and assorted bomb-making materials. Thus, the counterterrorists reckoned, they were one up on Hamas...
Another teenager, China's Chen Lu, won the bronze; considering that she is 17 and from a country where the international rules were unknown as recently as 1980, she showed authority and what her coach calls bing gan, a feeling for skating. Maybe the skating establishment should see whether China's homegrown code also has bing gan; it cannot be more Mandarin than the lofty formulas that are prevalent now in skating, and it might conceivably create fewer messes...
...Little Auntie's husband is sitting up front with the driver. This van belongs to the construction company he manages. Li Mei is your eldest female cousin, she's 22 and works at the bank. your eldest cousin, my brother, had to work so he's not here. Li Gan is 21 just like you and is a student at Overseas Chinese University. Li Peng, we call her Premier, because her name is the same as the premier's, is 17. Da-Wan is 16 and still in school. Your uncle, who is your father's little brother, and cousin...
...special trip to the wharf, to buy my father's favorite fish for my welcome dinner. At dinner my cousins kept me supplied with the biggest piece of fish, the biggest shrimp, the biggest crab. Later, when he learned I had liked the Hami melons in Xinjiang, Li Gan made a special trip to the fruit stand. When we bicycled around the city, making a pilgrimage to my father's old high school or combing tape stores for recordings, Li Gan insisted on carrying the bicycle onto the sidewalk and locking it for me. We also stopped by the trendiest...
...Donald Regan to serve as Treasury Secretary, the President-elect knew his choice only by reputation, as a Wall Street stockbroker and G.O.P. fund raiser. At the start of their first telephone conversation, Reagan made the mistake of pronouncing Regan's name exactly like his own. "It's Ree-gan," corrected the just invited Cabinet official. Apologized his about-to-be boss: "I guess I'll have to learn to pronounce it properly...