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...Gori last week as Russian bombers flew overhead, is just healing over. "We are in a very decisive moment," he says in clipped rapid-fire speech. "We need to stay strong and show the people that we are strong. And we will stay to the end. We will resist [Russia]. We will squeeze them out of this entire territory...
...called "Operation Pipe Dreams." And in my case, they wanted me. They felt I was the leader so they wanted to put me in jail to make a statement. There's a biblical saying that I kind of go by, I think Jesus may have said it, it goes: "Resist not evil." In other words, don't give it any energy. And that's what I did when I went to jail. My going to jail was the biggest statement I could have made for the legalization of pot. Way more than any kind of speeches or protesting or anything...
...cross-strait policy is the most popular among people here. But we have encountered the worst economic storm in many years; what has happened in the U.S. has affected our economy to a very great extent. All I can do is provide more aid to people who cannot resist the impact ... What we are trying to do is open up, deregulate, liberalize as much as possible. All of these measures are intended to make Taiwan a more competitive area in our part of the world. We'll have a difficult time, maybe even into next year, but eventually...
...Resistance stretching centers on flexing your muscles even as you stretch them; for example, instead of simply releasing a leg lift, resist the urge to let your quad muscles relax on the way down--and fight that urge with both your hamstrings and your quads. Some of these stretching moves can be done alone and others with a partner whom you'd enlist to, say, pull your fist away from you as you work to pull it in during a bicep curl...
Those supporters, now reduced to the dwindling ranks of the opposition, have vowed to resist the move to impeach Musharraf. "This is a gimmick," says Mushahid Hussain, a prominent senator and close ally of the president. "If they are going to open up a new front, then they've raised stakes and all bets are off. I don't think they would have control of the consequences of their own decisions. They're getting into something that they have no capacity to deal with...