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...alley and on summer nights we used to whisper through walkie-talkies long after our parents had put us to bed. Amanda was with me the first time I had a sleepover, the first time I was allowed to walk to school alone, the first time I took a leap into the deep end of a swimming pool...
...Grant and Siilats, the toughest college competition may still await at the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships. Grant ranks 12th nationally in the hammer throw thanks to her 59.59-meter performance from Heps, while Siilats is tied with eight other high jumpers for 10th with her 1.80-meter leap from Heps. Neither passed the automatic qualifying marks for their events, but a top-16 national finish is typically enough to make NCAAs...
...Responding to the subtext, that the administration could have prevented 9/11, kept Fleischer and Condoleeza Rice busy for the rest of the week. The explanation is the inherently obvious one: They surprised us, plain and simple, with a planes-as-missiles tactical leap. "There's been a long-standing awareness in the intelligence community, shared with the president, about the potential for bin Laden to have hijacking in the traditional sense," Fleischer said. Bush, he added, put out a secret alert based on the information the administration had, which wasn't much. Added Rice Thursday: "The government did everything that...
...could maybe use a thorough check up, and yes, there are several investigative committees in Congress doing just that this very week. They may even do some good. Maybe next time al-Qaeda tries for a big hit, the U.S. will be one step ahead, instead of one tactical leap behind. And maybe it won't be. Hindsight is not always 20-20; sometimes it's clouded by things we're sure should be there...
...three of her top aides and a handful of military leaders knows what will transpire, but most local observers aren't expecting anything that will give Suu Kyi a political or power-sharing role or a speedy end to military rule. "That's too big a leap," says Kyi Maung, a former NLD vice chairman. More likely is that the government and the NLD will work together to try to bring relief as rapidly as possible to a people being crushed by inflation, corruption and epidemics of aids and other diseases. Kyi Maung is cautiously optimistic that "reason will prevail...