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...violence, the government's chief negotiator, G.L. Peiris, said that the statement raised hopes of a settlement as peace talks move into their third round in Oslo. CANADA Foot in Mouth Françoise Ducros, a top aide to Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, resigned after she was overheard privately telling a reporter that the U.S. president was a "moron." Opposition politicians accused Chrétien of further souring his relations with Bush by being slow to accept the resignation. MEANWHILE Arachnophobia Britain's largest supermarket chain, Tesco, had a hairy problem on its hands after six women found...
...followed leads putting him in a wide variety of places in the Islamic world, from Yemen to Saudi Arabia to Iran. But the trail went cold at the Afghan border with Pakistan in December 2001, when a voice believed to be his was last overheard in Tora Bora. Senior Bush aides admit privately that the month it took to build up forces for the invasion of Afghanistan gave bin Laden and his senior leaders plenty of time to carry out evacuation plans. The military is a lot less keen to confess that it blew its best opportunity...
...have a match! We play Oklahoma, ranked No. 22 at the time. They have all scholarships athletes from Eastern European countries, and I thought I overheard one of the Sooners discussing his recent 25th birthday party. I don’t get to play, but Coach lets me keep score...
Some parents expressed doubt about the accuracy of the glance they gleaned of their children’s Harvard lives this weekend. One parent said she overheard upperclass students expressing relief that parties would be smaller this weekend, with the absence of first-years...
...moved in,” says Brogan delicately, “and the rest is history. I overheard her later saying that she had hooked up with the guy from Harvard. All of her friends were impressed...