Word: haile
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...sent word through his wife that he would sneak back for one of his occasional visits to the family home in Artas, a village south of Bethlehem, to share the meal with his parents. As the house was being readied for Yussef's arrival, Na'ama heard a hail of shots. Then her husband Ahmad screamed, "There's a young guy on the ground out there!" Na'ama rushed into the growing gloom of late afternoon. She recognized her son's denim jacket and jeans. He lay dead with a bullet in the back of his head, assassinated...
...there were no vital U.S. interests at stake, and his military doctrine would preclude the sort of limited air wars ordered up by Clinton against Iraq and Yugoslavia. Powell believes the Clinton administration's approach of limited use of force for limited objectives is the military equivalent of a Hail Mary pass - the outcome is far from certain, and if limited force fails it then becomes necessary for the U.S. to expand its commitment in what potentially can become a quagmire...
...three weeks left in his presidency. He had to scratch a trip to North Korea that might have cemented his foreign policy legacy; missile talks with Pyongyang weren't yet ripe. So Bill Clinton is making one last Hail Mary shot at a Middle East peace deal...
...down his nose, a pen and document in hand, while his paralegal, only a few feet away, performs a circus act involving two cell phones, a briefcase and an importunate reporter. Boies' pen makes sharply slanting scratches on a critical legal brief--just one stone in a brutal, driving hail of critical briefs--that must be filed immediately on behalf of Vice President Al Gore. Boies' celebrated Lands' End suit remains neatly buttoned; he wears his omnipresent black running shoes, one crossed over the other. He's not in a quiet conference room at one of the local law offices...
...printed versions of the records. After sending the guidelines to consumers for feedback, the White House was obliged to intensify the language considerably, blocking not only paper records from unauthorized dissemination, but also outlining procedures for verbal exchanges between doctors, insurance companies and other medical staff. Privacy advocates hail the bill as "a major victory for consumers," as the Health Privacy Project's Janlori Goldman told the New York Times. "The administration went to great lengths to respond to consumers' concerns about the proposed rules...