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...glamorous Channel Islands, is less evident in this wind-battered scrap of land lying roughly equidistant from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. "We have a northern, gritty approach to things here," says John Cashen, chief financial officer to the Manx Treasury. "We have to work harder for every pound...
...either side would want an agreement out of this meeting, because their positions seem so intractable. Clearly they reached the agreement last week because both sides want to pound on the tables this week and show how tough they are. I think it's highly unlikely the Chinese would return the airplane before they could scrape every last bit of intelligence out of it. And I don't think the U.S. could make any promises on backing out of surveillance flights...
...from Gaza into Israel; Israel for the first time reoccupying territory ceded to Arafat under the Oslo agreement - neither Sharon nor Arafat has a strategy to transcend the increasingly violent impasse. Arafat can harass and occasionally provoke the Israelis, but he can't alter the strategic balance; Sharon can pound and pummel Arafat's resources but he can't subdue Palestinian militancy. So even as violence increases, politically the situation remains at a stalemate. And that's likely to mean Secretary of State Powell will find himself devoting more of his time than he'd intended to the intractable conflicts...
...heels of his third place showing at University Nationals a few weeks ago, the freshman standout went 7-1 this past weekend in the 152-pound weight class. His dominating performance included a sweep of three outstanding Lehigh wrestlers, including All American Dave Esposito, who finished second at this year's Nationals and who defeated Jantzen in the finals of the EIWA championship...
...pound of coffee that we pay between $5 and $14 for, the commodity exchange says that farmers should get 60 cents a pound. That's what the exporters get paid. But farmers on the open market only get 20 to 40 cents per pound after the middleman," Brody says...