Word: ruralism
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...phone down, the operator heard him say, "Are you guys ready? O.K. Let's roll." No one is certain what happened next, but we do know two things: Todd Beamer "really didn't do much without a plan," as his wife says, and his plane crashed into rural Pennsylvania, not Pennsylvania Avenue. "Todd didn't take no for an answer in any area of life, whether it was on the athletic field or in some other situation," Lisa Beamer says. "He would say, 'I know we're in a bad situation, but let's do what...
...CANADA: Something must be going on north of the border. Kirkus salutes another Canadian first novel: "Crow Lake" by Mary Lawson (Dial; March 5), giving it a starred review. "A finely crafted debut looks back to a young woman's harshly beautiful childhood in rural Canada...A simple and heartfelt account that conveys an astonishing intensity of emotion, almost Proustian in its sense of loss and regret...
...arrived in the city just before dusk. It's an ancient town, an old walled city, dry and dusty, very rural looking, even though it has about a quarter of a million people. It is tumbledown, not the least bit prosperous. Kabul, which has grand buildings, is modern by comparison...
...soldiers, suicide bombings. So whenever one set of leaders is assassinated or rounded up, it's easy for another to take its place. In the past few months, Hamas has instituted a multitiered system of automatic replacements, borrowed from the communist underground of the 1950s. In each city or rural area, Hamas sets up three leadership groups: if the first team is killed, a second immediately takes its place, then a third. It takes some time for Israeli and Palestinian intelligence to figure out the successions. After Israel wiped out the two top Hamas men in the West Bank city...
...STANLEY O'NEAL He grew up poor in rural Alabama. Now he is president of MERRILL LYNCH and within three years is expected to become the first African-American CEO of a major Wall Street firm. O'Neal, 50, is already leading a culture change at Merrill by putting profits ahead of old relationships. He has scaled back in Japan (a move others have copied) and is shifting brokers' focus from Main Street to clients with at least $1 million to invest...