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Railroad talk is Brobdingnagian by nature. The lines bind every corner of America and are pushing increasingly into Mexico and Canada as trade builds. Those 12 top freight lines alone own 1,189,660 cars and 18,964 locomotives, which together could make a train that would stretch halfway around the globe...
...Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman sat in an upstate New York prison infirmary complaining about the food and the timing of his insulin injections, halfway around the world President Hosni Mubarak cracked down decisively on the sheik's fundamentalist followers in Egypt. Seven men, one just 18 years old, were hanged, beginning at dawn last Thursday, on charges of attacking foreign tourists and conspiring to assassinate government officials. Thirteen more have been sentenced to death, and 770 are about to go on trial before military tribunals. "This is remarkable, serious stuff," says Robert Satloff, director of the Washington Institute for Near...
...wrote the report very explicitly--if the ban was not removed. Harvard should not continue to participate in ROTC," he said. "The report doesn't anticipate something falling halfway in between...
...think it's important that we look not with labels, not with shorthand terms, not with partisan politics but with good, hard-nosed common sense, that we make sure we fund what we think can work so that we don't do it halfway...
Exciting new lands? Well, Lerner drove halfway across the country to lowa "just for fun" with members of the men's lightweight team for the Head of the Des Moines...