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...convulsion. He asked the crowd to step back and shot the shark four times in the head. Then he opened its mouth with the baton, while Tony Thomas, a lifeguard and volunteer firefighter, his own arm wrapped in a towel for protection, reached in with hemostats and extracted the limb. He covered it with a towel and packed it in ice to be rushed to a waiting ambulance...
...Frist?s declaration may ease his pain. Conversely, plenty of Beltway insiders consider Frist?s announcement simply a preview of Bush?s ruling; there is absolutely no way, the thinking goes, that someone as politically savvy and ambitious as Frist would put himself so far out such an dangerous limb without assurances that he?d end up on the winning team...
...neighboring Guinea regularly conduct raids across the border, while the United Nations recently announced an embargo on diamond exports from Liberia. Of course, the country has no diamonds of its own, but that's part of the problem: Taylor and his cronies stand accused of sponsoring the murderous, limb-chopping Revolutionary United Front rebels in neighboring Sierra Leone, a country with bountiful diamond fields. Taylor, who escaped from an American prison before returning to Liberia and fighting a bloody "liberation" war, denies he backs the RUF and says he is under attack from America and Britain. The President's cries...
...mild mannered and kids pet it. If they'd said this tiger was mild mannered and kids petted it, you'd go, 'Yeah, but it's a tiger.' But you see this giant lizard and you don't think it's gonna try to rip you from limb to limb. The zookeeper was kind of one of those Mr. Rogers type guys, so we thought, no big deal...
...people." The only way to stop the suicide bombings is through the kind of security coordination, between Israel, the Palestinian Authority and the CIA that they had until this intifada began. At that point, there were attacks but they were relatively few. We're not going out on a limb by saying that all the attacks during this intifada, while they were not done by Arafat, were organized by people who very often had been freed from jail by Arafat, and if he'd continued the security coordination, which he'd agreed to, then those bombings wouldn't have taken...