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...That explanation is unlikely to fly either with Juan Miguel Gonzalez or with the Justice Department, which indicated that if the meeting did not happen on Wednesday it would proceed with plans to order Lazaro to hand the boy over at a prescribed time and location. The family meeting had been arranged as it became clear that the Miami family were running out of options, even as they battled to keep legal challenges alive in Florida state and family courts. The family's decision not to go to Washington may have come in response to government spin on the meeting...
Once on the show, contestants vie to be the first to correctly answer a question to proceed to the "hot seat," where host Regis Philbin asks a series of questions starting at the $100 level...
...appeal to Congress to come up with some device, such as granting Elian citizenship," says TIME Miami bureau chief Tim Padgett. "If they've lost in court, Congress would be much less enthusiastic about supporting them. But the government wants to be as cautious as possible about how they proceed to send Elian home, and that creates many openings for the Miami relatives to delay the process. There'll be no surprise if they manage to drag this thing out a lot longer - and remember, you can't ignore the fact that Al Gore really needs Florida...
This form of nationalism is strange indeed. The significance of the integrity of Chinese soil seems to have overtaken the importance of the inhabitants of this patch of earth. If the communists proceed along a course perilously close to war, they might find themselves occupying wasteland, if circumstances compel them to make good their threats. Oddly enough, the mainland regime seems to believe that death threats would induce their compatriots to eagerly embrace the mainland and consider communist proposals for reunification...
...Napoleon was only 29 when he launched the invasion. A nasty, bourgeois knockoff of Alexander, the little Corsican hoped to conquer Egypt in a quick stroke. Why, exactly? Well, um.... to "liberate" it! Then he would proceed in triumph to Paris, depose the Directorate, take over France, and get on with ingesting the rest of the world. Napoleon was full of ideas...