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...Israel stops its raid on Gaza and lifts its closure of the border crossings, we'll go for a truce immediately." But such conciliatory sentiments are not shared by those Hamas military commanders who are on the warpath. Says Shibley Telhami, a Middle East scholar at the University of Maryland: "Hamas, given the scale of the losses, isn't going to turn and accept a cease-fire...
...doesn't have to be extreme to be meaningful - sometimes the company is the main attraction. On Jill Valeri's 40th birthday, her husband told her to pack three days worth of clothes and be ready to go at 3 p.m. Then he whisked her away from their suburban Maryland home to New York City, where they lived when they first met. He had already arranged childcare, asked his wife's boss to give her a couple days off and hatched a plan with her sister, whom his wife hadn't seen in over a year...
...been falling nationally since a peak of about 300 a year in the 1990s, according to the Death Penalty Information Center, to 115 people in 2007. The reduction comes as more states, such as New York, New Jersey and Illinois have passed death penalty moratoriums; while some, like Maryland, are considering whether to abolish executions altogether...
...action altogether after posting a disappointing 9-17 record, the Colonials are off to a decent 3-2 start so far this season. In its last game however, it fared much like its namesake did against the British on Long Island in 1776, as George Washington was routed by Maryland, falling 76-53. Rather than giving the Crimson hope with that result, the blowout has Harvard coach Tommy Amaker concerned about Colonial backlash against his team tomorrow. “They’re coming off their worst performance and we’re their next game, so we?...
...million since August, some were agitating to ditch the R word and replace it with the more ominous D one. "Shall we call it a depression now?" asked former Labor Secretary Robert Reich. "The threat of a widespread depression is now real and present," argued the University of Maryland's Peter Morici...