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...typically just spend the 11th alone with my daughter, Caroline. We usually just go for a walk, either on the beach or in the woods, and take the dog for a swim. We really don't talk to anyone on the phone. We have a quiet day just for ourselves...
...started as it plummeted toward the water (shark-infested, of course!) and managed to make an emergency landing in a different cow pasture - about 50 miles away, in rebel territory. There was no way Ramo would make it to the Casta?o interview, although on the crackly phone line I could hear him and the pilot tinkering with the aircraft's sick engine...
...Meanwhile, the family of hostage Regev, 26, a law student who enjoys coaching soccer, waits for news of their son from the Israeli authorities. It has been a while since the phone rang. "When they have information, they tell us," says Eldad's older brother. "Right now they have none. Since they were captured, we have heard nothing about their condition. We don't know if they are hurt. We are pleading with everybody to give us some sign of life...
...Afterwards, a shop owner, overhearing me complain on the phone about my treatment, invited me to his home for lunch. "The army is disrespectful to us," he said. "They take away our young men and beat them for no reason. We are Pakistanis, but they treat us like foreigners." And so, in his opinion, did the central government. "None of the work on the port has gone to people from Gwadar," he added. "They are spending billions of rupees on it, but they have not even built us a proper hospital." Like the children playing cricket, he seemed to consider...
...Howard and his key ministers are not aggressively selling the latest public offer; it's a more sober T-time. The prospectus will most likely focus on the company's strong balance sheet, a plan to cut 12,000 jobs and the building of a zippy new mobile-phone network; Telstra's board has promised to pay a dividend of 28? a share for the year to June 2007. On the downside, Telstra resembles an antediluvian creature, raised when fixed copper lines were king and competition on lucrative products was insignificant. It's unlikely the sale managers will have trouble...