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...These are also the kinds of operations that usually don't rub the Bush administration the wrong way. When Israel tries to nab suspects with a larger force, it doesn't look so good from Washington's viewpoint. In fact, it looks little different from the big operations in the major Palestinian towns. Israel sent tanks and troops to the village of Beit Rima, north of Ramallah, last week, because it believed one of Ze'evi's killers may have taken refuge with his relatives there. Palestinian gunmen resisted and five were killed. In the end, neither...
...brand new Concert Commission also manages to avoid the money rub, in spite of the absence of alumni. Concert Commission Chair Sujean S. Lee ’03 says that “[The] Undergraduate Council is our biggest source of money. We are a department of the UC now, but last year, we weren’t.” Funds for this Monday’s Dispatch concert came from ticket sales and profit from the previous concert, as well as council support...
...Besides, if all this stimulus busts the budget and shackles the recovery and makes us rub our heads in 2003 and wonder where all the money went - and why we haven?t won this war yet - the president can let the record show that Bush II, at least, was a sympathetic guy when the times were toughest...
...started a collection drive for protective doggie booties. In a week like this, some might find it strangely incidental to pay so much attention to pets. Hawk disagreed. "I spend my life teaching humane principles. If we learn how to be more humane to animals, we hope it will rub off on people," Hawk said. He paused. "What happened to my sister was very inhumane." --By Jodie Morse...
...rub comes in the details. Actually playing the battles can be confusing and frustrating. First you must select which armies you wish to use and place them on the battlefield, programming in their initial actions. This works fine, but once you need to start issuing orders on the fly the controls are not intuitive. Even more infuriating, there are many repetitive dramatizations that cannot be turned off. Still, kudos to the designers for not making the battles too terribly hard, but just challenging enough...