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Other Plan E cities such as Lowell, Worcester, and Medford have since gotten rid of the PR aspect of the charter—leaving Cambridge as the only city in America with...
Botterill needed only to clear the puck to preserve the victory, but her shot deflected off a U.S. defenseman, bouncing right back to her as time ran out. Lost for the moment, Botterill rid herself of the suddenly irrelevant puck, raised her stick in the air and rushed towards the Canadian net to pile on goaltender Kim St. Pierre...
...After a while, Leavitt deduced that I was on to the lack of security at the Capitol, or perhaps he was just trying to get rid of me. Either way, he ended the conversation by trying to win me over: he offered me a pin. I loudly refused, not only because journalistic integrity has never come so cheap, but because those things always set off the magnetometers...
...Even worse than losing that okusan (housewife) support is the perception that Koizumi caved in to the very forces he was elected to oppose. Liberal Democratic Party (ldp) bosses and bureaucrats had been scheming for months to get rid of Tanaka; Koizumi's backpedaling makes him look like a wimp - and a carbon copy of all the losers who preceded him in office. Even more dispiriting is his most recent choice of confidant, none other than his hapless predecessor, the most unpopular Prime Minister Japan has ever had, Yoshiro Mori. "This is the beginning of the betrayal to the nation...
...western Europe. They will be brought to justice not by U.S. special forces or B-52 pilots but by skillful forensic work and international cooperation among criminal-justice professionals. After the triumphs in Afghanistan, it's tempting to think that the American military machine, on its own, can rid the world of terrorism. The lesson of the shoe bomber's story...