Word: matters
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...matter how the students get the information, however, the ultimate goal is for them to "make a health-conscious and nutritionally sound selection," Hennessey says...
Rather than let the idea drop, Bush asked Mubarak if other forms of supervision would be acceptable, the official said, refusing to discuss the matter further or to be identified...
...committed that action is on our territory, he will be held accountable, and he will be brought to judgment. If it is proved that this action comes from the leadership of the P.F.L.P.-G.C., then we will deal with this matter at that time. We must distinguish between an individual action and an official action. I find it extremely unlikely that the P.F.L.P.-G.C. can be behind this action, because this group more than any other concentrates its activities totally on the occupied territories...
Another homage to the era of The Maltese Falcon appears in Buried Caesars (Mysterious Press; 179 pages; $15.95), in which Stuart M. Kaminsky's sleuth Toby Peters is hired by General Douglas MacArthur on a matter of national security and gets a helping hand from Dashiell Hammett on a spree. The volume is one of the sprightliest in the series built around Peters but is overshadowed by A Cold Red Sunrise (Scribner's; 210 pages; $15.95), which features Kaminsky's other recurring detective, Soviet policeman Porfiry Rostnikov. That sly and assiduous investigator is dispatched to Siberia to look into...
...hour meeting in Carthage, U.S. Ambassador to Tunisia Robert Pelletreau failed to persuade Arafat's representatives to order a halt to the rock throwing and other violence of the intifadeh. The rebuff, together with continued raids from Lebanese territory, showed that progress toward a settlement is more than a matter of moving Shamir's government...