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...mile inland in an area of the world not known for wealth or stability, but for deprivation, poverty and civil strife. The waves that smashed ashore changed the very geography of the region; islands that once housed hundreds or thousands are now only a memory. Nature, without the slightest hint of mercy, snuffed out over 150,000 human beings, ending their lives anonymously and with great pain. We can only imagine the dread those thousands experienced when the waters roared up, the terror so many mothers felt as waves swept their little children away or the anguish of nameless fishermen...
...Pride found momentum at the free throw line as well, converting 13-of-18 from the charity stripe in the second half after going just 3-of-8 in the first period. Hofstra went 8-of-12 from the line down the stretch, effectively ending any hint of a Harvard comeback...
...September he conspicuously let it die. He repeatedly offered swing voters expressly what they told pollsters they did not want: a multiyear commitment in Iraq, a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage, Social Security private accounts, restricted federal funding of stem-cell research. The most he would do is hint that radioactive Attorney General John Ashcroft wouldn't make it to a second Bush presidency. But even at the height of the Abu Ghraib prison-abuse scandal, Bush would not consider calls to dump Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. "If you're wasting your time coming up with...
...allege that government officials and others, notably in France, Russia and China; oil companies, including American giants; and individuals, among them the senior U.N. official appointed to run the program, received preferential deals to buy Iraqi oil at below market price. Many have denied it, and there is no hint of personal impropriety by Annan. Much of Saddam's stolen revenues came from oil sales to Jordan, Turkey and Syria, which the U.S. government and the U.N. Security Council knew about. "Should members of Congress resign," asks Senator Carl Levin, "because they turned a blind eye to illegal sales Saddam...
Well, from where exactly in the Orient (which means simply "East") were they, anyway? Matthew's word Magi is a vague clue, since it can mean astronomers, wise men or magicians and was applied to people from all over. The gifts they bore--gold, frankincense and myrrh--hint at Arabia, since unrelated Bible stories describe camel trains of similar tribute emanating from Sheba and Midian, both on that peninsula. Their interest in stars suggests Babylon, famous for its astrologers. The happiest guess of all turned out to be the one made in the 4th century by the decorators...