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...Talks on extending the "calmness" period are planned for the coming weeks, but Hamas isn't keen to give Abbas more rope unless he can secure the release of prisoners from Israeli jails - something Israel is unlikely to do unless Hamas disarms. "Under present conditions, we wouldn't be ready to continue with the calmness," says Abu Zuhry...
With such little time, the margin for error is so thin that “it’s like being on a tight rope and hoping you don’t trip,” says McCambridge. That’s exactly what happened with Snoop—the Boston Police Department unexpectedly demanded that Harvard hire extra police officers for the show, and the HCC simply didn’t have the money or the time to save the event...
...time. It's appropriate to save people with helicopters, but it can't be done to the exclusion of everything else." Jindal, who served in the President's Administration, would like Bush to ask Colin Powell to come back to run the relief operation. Others urge Bush to rope in New York City's savior Rudy Giuliani. Given the President's own performance, passing the buck wouldn't be the worst thing...
...during the mayoral contest in an inner-Sydney city council, Rats in the Ranks. So when Connolly took up the book again 12 years on, it was a way of revisiting a time he remembers as "our high point, our year on the edge ... Days when we edged along rope bridges spanning churning rivers; or listened to funeral chants floating over the hills, to screams and gunshots and battle cries, the twang of taut bowstrings, the phtt of arrows fired in anger and passing close by." The result, Making 'Black Harvest' (ABC Books; 296 pages), reveals a talent for lyrical...
...Pompidou is squeezing much of its content?an astounding 850 works?into a single floor and organizing it in a novel way. This thematic approach means that you can enjoy a Laurel and Hardy film in the same room as a delightful Picasso sculpture of a girl skipping rope (under the subtheme "childhood"). Or a Bauhaus-inspired Marcel Breuer dining-room set in front of the energetic Wassily Kandinsky painting Auf Weiss II (1923)?subtheme: "abstract city." You can hear the Music of Changes by experimental composer John Cage in the space dedicated to "random...