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Denner said he requested that a bail hearing be held later this week to give him time to gather evidence for arguments that Pring-Wilson should be released...
Mohammed set out on foot and walked 6 miles before he came across a group of Marines. Then, hands raised, Mohammed approached and said, "I have important information about woman soldier in hospital." Over the next 48 hours, the Marines sent him back to the hospital twice to gather more information. Finally, Mohammed drew five rough maps of the hospital by hand. Using them as guides, a planning team at U.S. Central Command (Centcom) began furiously sketching out the mission...
...traffic or keep in touch via e-mail or instant messaging. But that kind of communication is no substitute for face-to-face and heart-to-heart contact, so busy women are increasingly taking a page from the men's playbook and getting together around specific activities. Once they gather, however, the talk still tilts toward the personal. "The one finding that psychologists agree on is that for males, a friend is someone you do something with, while for females, a friend is someone you are with," says Marianne LaFrance, professor of psychology and women's and gender studies...
Karyn Munsie, 37, of Sydney, says she feels the same way when she gets together with her friends Sandra Page-Cook, 36, of New York City and Suzanne Skyvara, 36, of San Anselmo, Calif. The three, who met 13 years ago when they all worked in Australia, gather once a year in a different location around the world. Although scheduling, funds and time zones--Munsie is waking up when Page-Cook is just going to sleep--are obstacles, the women say their friendship is important enough to make the trips a priority. Says Skyvara: "You can talk to another woman...
Richard Thal, the Boston man who had brought the Spanish exchange students, laughs as he tries to gather the crowd of high-schoolers. Although many of his friends frequented the Exeter Street Theater’s Rocky showings, this was Thal’s first time...