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...forced the Bush administration to substantially alter its own posture. While Vice President Cheney maintained the policy of keeping Arafat at arm's length during his visit to Jerusalem, Washington has offered a meeting with Cheney in Cairo next week as a carrot to induce the Palestinian leader to halt attacks on Israelis. That's a far cry from the White House's recent inclination to leave Arafat twisting in the wind...
Airports are grinding to a halt so frequently these days that even the Federal Aviation Administration temporarily lost track. Portions of Los Angeles International Airport, the world's third busiest, were closed or evacuated four times in eight days this month. In one incident, a "suspicious" item detected by a screening machine turned out to be a food processor. A terminal in Connecticut was sealed last week when a pair of scissors was discovered in a trash...
Bane wrote a Feb. 3 op-ed piece in the Boston Globe and has also been circulating a letter to area Catholics calling for the halt in donations. But she said she did not know how effective her appeal for withholding contributions has been...
...been to one HRCF meeting and that has been it. The closest I come to anything religious is when I eat next to one of my blockmates and they pray before they eat their food.” While his church visits ground to a halt, his downloading of pornography did not. With a faster ethernet connection, Michael spends less time searching for porn but still considers it a regular part of his week. “I have a fair amount of stuff on my hard drive—Internet pictures and videos that I’ve downloaded...
...already knew. The roar of the crowd was swelling as Sarah checked off jumps and spins with the precision of a sharpshooter until the crescendo drowned out the last few seconds of her music. When Sarah's final spin circled to a halt, John and Amy ran inside and joined in the thunderous applause for their 16-year-old daughter's history-making performance last Thursday. After her "top this" scores were posted, Hughes slipped backstage and did something she had never done before at the end of a competition--she called her mother. "Mom, I did it," she said...