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...Tunis is quiet after midnight, when the phone rings. This is a Yasser Arafat tradition, summoning visitors at all hours to make their way through a gauntlet of steel barricades to a villa in a quiet residential corner of the city. The stucco house looks like any other, except that it is surrounded by young men in jeans, bearing Kalashnikovs, smoking cigarettes. Their job is to keep the Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization alive -- and they take it seriously. Male guests are patted down, their pockets emptied, wallets searched. Women are scanned with ultrasensitive metal detectors, their purses % ransacked...
Pentagon Christmas Bonus Stepping in to defuse a high-level budget dispute, President Clinton decided to grant the Pentagon an extra $10 billion over the next five years. The funds will cover pay raises and quiet those in Congress who felt the President had cut the military budget too deeply...
...Algiers, to be precise) sounds more like a weak joke than the convening of kindred spirits. Circumstances don’t help, either–the room is noisy, and I have to lean forward and ask for frequent repetitions to understand Hollinghurst’s Oxonian accent and quiet, rapid delivery.His opinion of my dubious comprehension, as well as his passion for precision and le mot juste, quickly becomes apparent. After describing his writing process as “putting on the veil,” Hollinghurst explains that he does not literally wear a veil, but only metaphorically...
...Quiet Revenge? Everyone seems so alarmed by the outbreak of avian flu [Oct. 17]. Maybe it's time we stopped and looked at the way we raise animals. Seven to nine chickens crammed into a cage the size of a microwave oven is a virus time bomb waiting to explode. Caged chickens stand in their own feces and are never able to stretch their wings. Many have been debeaked, and some have chronic pain and infections. We should ban the inhumane standards of factory farming. I believe that avian flu is the quiet revenge of those millions of chickens, ducks...
...weekend to advance to the semifinals. In her first match on Monday, Schnitter defeated Stony Brook’s Anne Catherine Valle by a 6-3, 6-2 tally. That set up her match with the sophomore second seed Novaceanu, whom Schnitter had little trouble with. After a mostly quiet rookie campaign with Harvard, Schnitter has emerged as a force in 2005, finishing the fall season with an overall record of 13-4. “She’s been working really hard at improving her game over the course of the fall,” Graham said...