Word: meet
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...Private First Class John Hart, who had been killed in Iraq. "I turned around at the end of the service, and that was the first time I met Senator Kennedy," the father of the dead soldier said. "He was right there behind us. I asked him if he could meet with me later to talk about how and why our son died - because he did not have the proper equipment to fight a war. He was in a vehicle that was not armored...
...sitting, smiling, happy to be surrounded by family and friends in a place where he could hear and remember it all. And as he sang, his blue eyes sparkled with life, and for the moment it seemed as if one of his deeply felt beliefs - "that we will all meet again, don't know where, don't know when" - was nothing other than true...
...help but think of Willy Wonka when you meet Tsang Heh-kwan. While walking around her factory in Hong Kong's New Territories, the 80-year-old giggles as she offers samples of a candy product she's developing. The subtly sweet ginger confectionery is a delight, and Tsang - hale and lively - declares that she has finally perfected the formula that prevents it from sticking to teeth...
...Though Netanhyahu is under severe pressure from hard-right partners in his coalition government to concede nothing, his comments in London suggested he might nevertheless consider modifying his hostility to a building freeze. "We are making headway," Netanyahu said ahead of his meeting with Mitchell. "My government has taken steps in both words and deeds to move forward." Later that day, he left for Germany to meet Chancellor Angela Merkel on the last leg of his European jaunt. Though Merkel has always been careful to avoid pressuring Israel in public on the issue, German officials have said the Chancellor will...
...Were even imperfect movement made on the settlement issue, it would probably be enough to clear the way for Netanyahu to meet with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the margins of next month's United Nations General Assembly. That resumption of direct contacts would be a major boost for Obama's stated foreign policy priority of laying the foundation of lasting peace in the Middle East. And it would also reverse the dramatically deteriorating Israeli-Palestinian relations that helped lift hard-line, mutually hostile governments to power on both sides of the divide. (See pictures of heartbreak in the Middle...