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...hurricane, 57% said they disapproved of President Bush's handling of the war; 61% said they supported cutting Iraq spending to pay for hurricane relief. Pentagon spokesman Larry DiRita downplays those figures, asking, "What is it worth to avoid another 9/11?" But privately, Pentagon officials acknowledge that the reservoir of public faith in the war effort is running dangerously low. "The issue of American staying power is forefront in our minds," says a military officer. "Everything has costs...
...Hetch Hetchy released last fall, Environmental Defense argued that there are alternative ways to provide both the water and the power currently supplied by the O'Shaughnessy Dam. In one scenario, for example, the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission would shift its water storage over to the Don Pedro Reservoir, lower down on the Tuolumne River, which feeds the Hetch Hetchy System. But that could be tricky. Don Pedro belongs to the Turlock and Modesto Irrigation Districts, and those districts (whose rights to water from the Tuolumne River predate San Francisco's) are not eager to allow a large urban...
Unfortunately, things quickly turned into a Reservoir Dogs-style bloodbath. Between the Leverett ’80s Dance, Skankfest in Currier (“13 to Party, 21 to Drink” read one sign posted in the Tuchman Living Room), and Lowell’s “Jollies” party, the statutory rape watch reached dangerous levels...
...what a voice it is. It’s a tenor of sorts, less sweet than early Neil Young, but equally capable of expressing the whole spectrum of emotion. Molina has a boundless reservoir of feeling which he taps into on each of his songs...
...former security guard who spent the past 11 years in prison for the murder of his wife, Zhang Zaiyu; following the revelation that Zhang was still alive; in Jingmen, China. After his wife's disappearance in 1994 and the discovery of an unidentified woman's body in a reservoir near their home, investigators apprehended She, who said upon his release that he confessed to his wife's murder after being beaten and deprived of sleep during a 10-day interrogation. Zhang resurfaced in her hometown last month after a decade spent living in another province, where she had fled...