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...Blair's favor, however, are his megawatt charm and drive. Who else would leap at the chance to do diplomacy's most thankless job? It also helps that, so far, he has the trust of Bush and the Israelis. "We have nothing but respect for him," said Tzipi Livni, Israel's foreign minister...
...ours made a case for canine Ritalin. He careered around the apartment possessed by a long-eared, drooling demon. He practiced situational bladder control on our cherry-wood parquet floors. He grew into 60 lbs. of torso with 3-in. stubs for legs, yet he could do a dead leap off the kitchen floor to swipe a pizza off the counter. Plus he bayed--a siren of woo-woos that endeared us to our condominium neighbors. But after every misdeed, he would turn his googly-eyed gaze up at us, and we would turn to butter. We couldn't help...
...ball bearings. The force of the explosion was enough to peel the roof of the bus off and hurl it 10 meters [30 feet] away. General Ali Shah Paktiawaal, head of Kabul's Criminal Investigation Department, had just pulled up to the gate when he felt his bulletproof car leap in the air from the force of the blast. "I thought it was a landmine," he said. The rose garden at police headquarters, protected from the street by a thick, eight-foot wall, was littered with broken glass, charred metal and body parts. "They were recognizable as human," says...
Flipping through the annual report of the Harvard College Fund (HCF), it is hard not to notice the number of photos of smiling undergraduates presumably made happy by the generosity of donors to the Fund. They leap out at any reader and are enough to make even a minor donor feel good about writing their check. In actuality, however, their donation to the Fund may never make its way back to undergraduate life—a deception that must be corrected...
Nevertheless, it was a leap she was confident making...