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...item's availability and when it "usually" ships, which should help the harried. The site's Apparel, Sporting Goods, Gourmet Food and other departments also set off items that are in stock and will ship quickly in green "Simply Give" boxes on their home pages. Note: if you select overnight shipping, that means the day after your order leaves the warehouse--not the day after you hit the Submit Order button...
...husband (Paul Stewart), take the corpse away. Tommy, who has the reputation as a fibber, can?t get his parents or the police to believe him. He?s in deeper trouble when his mother makes him apologize to the murderers. The next night, his folks have to go out overnight. ?Don?t leave your room,? warns his mother. ?I won?t, Mom,? he says hopelessly. ?There?s no place for me to go.? But there?s a place for the killers to go: his place...
Thirty years ago, my girlfriend and I took an overnight ferry from Piraeus, the port of Athens, to Iraklion, on the island of Crete. After mooching around the Minoan ruins at Knossos, we hitchhiked to the wildly beautiful lands in the west of the island. The girlfriend became my wife, and every year or two since-15 times in all-we've returned, to the same village, the same indescribable light, the same White Mountains plunging into the same wine-dark...
...whether it wants international help in Iraq - say by forgiving Iraq's debts - or would rather do without it (which is one interpretation of last week's memo limiting the countries whose firms will be able to bid for prime contracts in Iraq). And the insurgency will not end overnight. Remember: asymmetric warfare is aptly named. A mere handful of terrorists can tie up large armies for years - indeed decades. Iraq is dripping with high explosives, guns and rocket-propelled grenades, and awash in angry young men who know how to use them and who would like to kill...
...Despite its troubles, no one is seriously suggesting that Nintendo is going to be squeezed out of the hardware business almost overnight, as Sega was. Nintendo is sitting on $6 billion in cash and carries no debt, which could provide a war chest with which to outsource a competitive next-generation hardware system. The threats to its Game Boy monopoly are, at this point, hypothetical; and it does have a core excellence in producing seductive software, which makes it (still) one of the largest game publishers in the world...