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...fight, fight, fight--all the time, at every step," says a Powell associate. "He's getting increasingly frustrated. Every single step in the road gets fought over." Last week, with Powell shuttling through five countries and the violence in the West Bank becoming worse, the White House kept quiet, leaving the diplomatic moves to Powell. "You can't undercut him," said a senior official. "You've got to let him do the talking while he's over there." But some Powell allies sensed a White House attempt to protect the President and saddle Powell with the blame, should his mission...
...cool” kids in high school who lives on daddy’s credit card and can’t help attracting copious numbers of women. His partner in crime is his physics tutor Justin Pendleton (Michael Pitt II). Justin is a classic quiet kid, skilled on a computer but is not especially outgoing or friendly. It is his deranged philosophy that embraces crime and suicide that ultimately drives the film’s plot...
...what they see as the Bush administration's failure to restrain Ariel Sharon. Twelve Palestinians have been killed in clashes in Gaza since Thursday night, as gunmen have launched new attacks on Israeli soldiers and settlers there, and Israeli tanks invaded the Rafah refugee camp. Gaza had been relatively quiet over the past month as violence raged on the West Bank, but Palestinian leaders there may be inclined to take the initiative right now, which would stoke the regional political fires that first forced the Bush administration to intervene two weeks...
...realize that you all go to sleep quite late, but the quiet hours begin at 11pm on week nights and 1am on week days. I try to get into my [job] early in the morning which means that I often go to bed at 11pm. Although you are quite courteous about becoming quiet after I call you, I shouldn’t need to call you to ask you to be quiet with this frequency. Often I call after you have awakened me. I would greatly appreciate it if you would refrain from the following activities during quiet hours; yelling...
Cappy grew up in a house not terribly different from those surrounding it, a medium-sized two-story on a quiet residential street. Stopping for a glass of juice in the kitchen, Cappy remembers to leave his 18-year-old brother a note telling him that he has taken the car. He thinks if it’s gone his brother might call the cops.“He comes home, the car’s missing, I would [call the police],” Cappy says, indicating that the gentrification of Somerville is perhaps not yet complete. He spots...