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...player in forcing a satisfactory resolution of the crisis. Simultaneously, the Bush Administration has voiced expectations that the example of America’s military triumph in Iraq will send a clear and unambiguous coercive lesson to other hostile proliferators, who must understand that they should refrain from seeking WMD or risk the fate of Saddam’s Iraq...
...label Samoa was quite appropriate—perhaps the name was meant to conjure the pervasive coconut taste for which the Samoa Islands are known. After all, if Detroit was famous for a fattening food that tasted like smog or whatever else Detroit is famous for, would we refrain from calling it a “Detroit” because the city’s average resident is overweight? I think...
...CATHOLIC CHURCH of Singapore has suspended confessions in booths and instead granted "general forgiveness" to believers. In Ontario, worshippers are asked to refrain from kissing icons, dipping their hands in holy water or sharing Communion wine --By Michele Orecklin
...shrapnel wound he received 13 years ago. One side of his face is a mask of melted flesh, with black sockets where an ear and an eye should be. "Everybody is dead," he says. "Sixteen people in my family are dead, all killed by the communists." In a heartbreaking refrain I heard repeatedly during my stay in the camp, he adds, "America must save...
...pretty or don’t you / Do you wanna get with me or not?” Taryn croons in her raspy drawl on “Wastin’ My Time.” “Now Understand This” boasts a refrain that sounds like a chorus of kindergarteners on uppers, happily la-la-la-ing their way to hyperactive oblivion. And “Crazylove” is a ditzy paean to family and friends—the kind perfected by Vitamin C with her notorious 2000 graduation anthem...