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...complex 1980 agreement that grants it limited access to four strategic Omani air bases. These facilities serve as a supply and deployment base for the U.S. Central Command, formerly called the Rapid Deployment Force, should a crisis develop in the region. Washington has spent $256 million to lengthen runways, harden concrete aircraft hangars and install storage tanks capable of holding 1.1 million gal. of jet fuel at the bases. American C-141 and C-5A cargo planes routinely land at the Masirah Island base, off Oman's southeastern coast, dropping off supplies to be forwarded by helicopter to U.S. naval...
...Federer has dominated Wimbledon the past two years; Nadal lost to Alexander Waske, ranked 147th in the world, at the grass-court tune-up in Halle. Still, a Wimbledon win is one of Nadal's goals. "If he can get past the first week and some hot weather helps harden the surface, he has a chance," says tennis coach Brad Gilbert. "Nothing this kid does surprises me." --With reporting by Bruce Crumley/ Paris, Kristina Dell/ New York, Andrea Gerlin/ Halle and Jane Walker/ Madrid
...what I should do. I'm not in this game for personal kudos. I wish I weren't in the game at all. I have to follow biblical paradigms: prophets go on talking to kings; Moses goes to Pharaoh, even when he is told that Pharaoh is going to harden his heart. But he goes...
...Republican Representative from Georgia. That comparison is debatable, but there is no denying that the action will resonate with a small minority of committed members of the religious right. "For people for whom this is murder by the state in a grotesque and inhumane way, this will deepen and harden their energy and activism in ways that will last a lifetime," says former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, who while personally conflicted over the issue, thinks Congress did the right thing. "But for everyone else, it will be a memory...
...envisage a situation where if the provisions of the U.S.-bequeathed law are used to deny the Shiites the majority power they believe they won in a democratic election, Shiite opposition to the TAL - and to the influence, even the continued presence of the U.S. in Iraq - would harden...