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...were unavailable. I was sort of depressed. It's gotten much better since after high school. I just worked my ass off. I was a perfectionist, overachiever and it was a hard, dark time for me. I didn't like it. I think the people that peek there sometimes plateau, and the ones that struggle during that time tend to have a better experience afterwards...
...already been brought to heel. The news was even better than they hoped: Unemployment was down, but not too much, and hourly wages were up, but by just pennies. The Dow shot up more than 200 points in the hour after the opening bell, then settled in at that plateau...
Assad has long wanted to reclaim the Golan Heights, the strategic plateau captured by Israel in the Six-Day War of 1967, the loss of which he regards as a personal and national indignity. Outpowered militarily, Assad knows negotiations are his best option. The Syrian leader, 68, suffers multiple ailments, which are thought to include diabetes and heart disease. He is eager to prepare the succession of his son Bashar, 34, a mild-mannered, British-trained ophthalmologist who emerged as heir apparent only after his elder brother Basil died in a 1994 car crash. "Assad has more a sense...
...party, having broken with most Democrats to vote in favor of the Gulf War. And unlike Clinton, he served in Vietnam. Gore set his fix on world affairs early in his political career, though it was not an obvious area for a junior Congressman elected from the plateau of Middle Tennessee. Even on the environment, Gore's signature issue, the questions that stirred his passions most were global warming and ozone depletion...
...punish Turkey has attempted to annihilate both a people and a memory. Turkey for humanitarian crimes and to secure the freedom and independence of Armenia. Today, the Republic of Armenia is less than one-tenth the size of historical Armenia, and Armenian churches and homes built on the Anatolian plateau have been destroyed or converted into mosques. Mention of Armenians in Turkish textbooks is almost non-existent, and books about the genocide are banned in Turkey, despite confirmation of the Armenian massacres in Ottoman court records, the testimony of survivors, eyewitness accounts of missionaries and diplomats and over...