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...Kenny Chesney’s 1997 gem, I Will Stand. I like his earlier stuff. As such, it pains me when perusing the Facebook profiles of my classmates, I so often encounter some permutation of the following phrase: “ill listen to nething, cept country...
...David Akers hit a 38-yard field goal with no time left to give the Eagles a 23-20 playoff victory over the New York Giants). The two most important rules for a holder: first, get those laces out, toward the goal post, so the ball flies. And second, listen to your superior. "You've got to be open-minded to the kicker's needs," says Maynard. "The kicker may tell you one day to hold it like this, and the next day to do it a different way. Do what he tells...
...Pyongyang knows a cave-in when it sees one. They brushed aside the "early harvest" proposal as inadequate, demanding still more before they would listen to new denuclearization offers-specifically, the release of $24 million of Pyongyang's funds currently frozen in Macau's Banco Delta Asia on suspicion of North Korean complicity in counterfeiting U.S. currency. Pyongyang's obsession over the past year with repocketing its Macau bag money-a paramount issue on its foreign agenda ever since the accounts were impounded in 2005 by Macau banking authorities under U.S. Treasury scrutiny-is easily explained. Since the North...
...McCord told his findings to anyone who would listen. But apart from a handful of tabloid journalists, he says he wasn't taken seriously until 2002, when he met Nuala O'Loan. She had been appointed the Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland as part of the reforms that followed the 1998 Good Friday settlement. A Catholic academic, Mrs. O'Loan's background is very different from McCord's. But she has proven to be equally tough-minded. Her report on a four-year investigation, published January 22, confirms McCord's basic conclusions. It alleges that some police informers in Northern...
...want to know whether a surge of U.S. troops in Baghdad will make a difference, listen to Iraqis like taxi driver Ali Mansoor, 38. Last fall Mansoor's neighborhood in central Baghdad, a mixed Shi'ite-Sunni area known as al-Sadoon, became a sectarian killing zone. The streets around his house were the scene of scores of murders and abductions every day. And then, for one week last October, the violence stopped. "There was a big change in the security situation. Everybody noticed," says Mansoor, who asked not to be identified by his real name. "In my area, there...