Word: insist
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...first stop with the Fluffians, as they called themselves, is Book Soup. Taking a reporter to a bookstore on a shopping spree seems a lot like writing Nova in your Nielsen logbook. But they insist they love to buy books, and in 20 minutes of panther-like movements around the store, they indeed spend $352.77. But the most impressive part of the shopping--more than their speed or the way they use Amazon as a verb, or that they buy two of David Sedaris' books and then one of Jonathan Ames' because I point out that "he's funny...
...supported by Pakistan's spy agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), to wage war in Afghanistan and Indian-controlled Kashmir. (In the case of the Kashmir conflict, Pakistan has always denied giving anything but moral support to the cause of Kashmiri self-determination, but militants who have fought there insist they had support from the military.) And when young Pakistanis were recruited for fighting in either Afghanistan or Kashmir, they were pumped up with the promise of serving in a holy war to free fellow Muslims from Soviet or Indian rule...
Lobbyists for the National Rifle Association, who insist that the public is not in fact in favor of the ban, have argued that the law has huge loopholes. Indeed, some gun manufacturers have been producing weapons with slight cosmetic changes to sidestep the intent of the law. Senate Majority Leader Tom Delay, R.-Texas, has derided the ban as an ineffective “feel-good piece of legislation.” To be sure, whatever ambiguity existing in the current legislation is problematic. But the existence of loopholes is not an argument for throwing out the ban altogether...
...officer, who worked alongside I.N.C. intelligence gatherers at the time of the alleged breach, says he was interrogated and polygraphed by the FBI. He contended to TIME that the allegations against the I.N.C. are baseless and that the bureau is "grasping at straws." U.S. intelligence and law-enforcement officials insist that U.S. intercepts of Iranian communications prove that secrets about U.S. code-breaking were gravely breached and that the only question is, Who is to blame...
...menaced by a different destroyer - the hatred between Palestinians and Israelis, for whom the old stones are nationalist territorial markers. Israelis say Palestinian reconstruction work inside the Temple Mount - begun in 1996 to turn massive underground chambers into a mosque - has compromised its structural integrity. The Palestinians insist the structure is safe, and accuse the Israelis of trying to assert control over the site. Both fear the loss of their political claim to the sacred place. At the center of the current controversy is Isam Awwad, chief Palestinian architect for the Haram al-Sharif and the man in charge...