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...tour ended. And hit us again and again for the next six months. The phone company seemed powerless. Its security folks moved us to one unlisted number after another, half a dozen times. They put special pin codes in place. They put traces on the line. But the troublemaker kept breaking through...
...wish. The location is kept vague, and tickets (to pay for portable toilets and the like) are best found via the Web. By not advertising the event and making finding it a rite of initiation, Harvey gets his crowds and his harmony. By now, it's self-feeding, bigger than Harvey or anyone else. Its main draw seems to be its utter lack of meaning...
...years he kept Boris Yeltsin in his sights. But now the President's former bodyguard and top adviser, ALEXANDER KORZHAKOV is taking aim at his ex-boss. In Boris Yeltsin: From Dawn to Dusk, he depicts Yeltsin as a vodka-swilling wreck of a man. (He's even selling off the family album--his snapshots of Yeltsin hanging out in Sochi.) One unsubstantiated secret he claims: when Yeltsin sent in tanks against his foes in Russia's White House in 1993, he celebrated before the battle was won in what Korzhakov says was his usual fashion: by getting thoroughly soused...
...Norquist has also taken a tough line with city workers. He was faced a few years ago with a standoff between his public-works and fire departments over the painting of firehouses. The fire department wanted the buildings painted in the summer, when its trucks could easily be kept outside, but public works said too many of its people would be on vacation. Norquist allowed the fire department to engage a private contractor to get the project done in the summer. "The good news for the public-works department is they learned from this and changed their procedures," says Norquist...
JERUSALEM: Three Palestinian trucks carrying eggplants and tomatoes left the Gaza Strip today. It may not seem like news, but this is the first step in cooling down the crisis in the Middle East. Since the suicide bombing thirteen days ago, Israel kept the Gaza border closed as part of an array of sanctions against the Palestinians. Now, those sanctions are being rolled back -- and the vegetable trucks are rolling again...