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...Ouedraogo said: "We cannot tolerate any longer the killings of foreign civilians." He did not, however, specify what action his country would take. A 1998 census found 2.3 million Burkinabés in the Ivory Coast. U.S. Last Visit Jiang Zemin visited President George W. Bush at his Texas ranch for talks that were seen as the Chinese President's swansong before his retirement, expected later this year. The two leaders said they opposed nuclear weapons on the Korean peninsula, and Jiang said there'd been a frank exchange on Taiwan. Earlier, he called for greater Sino-American cooperation...
Jiang will arrive in the United States next week and is scheduled to meet with Bush at his ranch in Crawford, Texas on Thursday...
...when a house consisted of one room centered on a fireplace for cooking and warmth. Then prosperity and technology combined to change things over the years. Central heating decentralized living, making separate bedrooms for individual family members more feasible. In the postwar housing boom, the classic three-bedroom ranch gave each component of the nuclear family a room (but what moron decided that one bathroom would suffice?). By the early '70s everyone was going his own way. Who needed a formal dining room when no one wanted to eat together anyway...
...cash out at age 50 and teach in an inner-city elementary school. She would then move back into her childhood home because by that time, "my parents would be very old, and old people live in small houses without steps." They would have to buy the single-story ranch house next door...
...President appeared to apply the brakes Wednesday, following a meeting at his ranch with his national security team. He emphasized that he was in no rush to reach a decision on Iraq, his willingness to consider a range of non-military options and his intention to consult with allies over how to pursue his goal of ousting Saddam Hussein's regime. Bush's tone appeared to tilt towards the more cautious approach favored by Secretary of State Colin Powell and the Republican foreign policy old guard - the hawks, after all, had been pressing the urgency of immediate U.S. military action...