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...what's the rush? Of all the priorities the President could be spending his political capital and the country's resources on, exactly why has he chosen to make missile defense so urgent? There's no public clamor for it; no one knows if it works; most of America's friends and rivals hate it; and the incoming rogue ICBMs it is supposed to obliterate don't yet exist. But Bush's insistence on deploying a Son of Star Wars a.s.a.p. formed the edgy subtext of his meetings with European leaders in Genoa and the top talking point...
...windfall spread, and locals started tilling the ground around Kawu, 30 miles northeast of the Nigerian capital, Abuja. Within months, more than 2,000 diggers were burrowing into Kawu's stony earth. Dealers bid against one another, pushing up prices, in Kawu's version of the Gold Rush. Bars and brothels opened, and newly rich locals bought motorcycles. "Everybody was looking for money," says Abubakar Sala, the local primary school teacher, who headed to the fields after classes to try his luck and found two sculpted heads. "Farmers let their crops rot because they were too busy digging for terra...
...RUSH LIMBAUGH Power surge: mega-dittos, mega-dollars, with eight-year, $250 mil contract. Still radio...
...many Red Sox fans, humiliating the Expos in their own home park was the ultimate ego-building experience. But that rush of self-esteem in Bostonian veins was sucked straight out of the Montreal faithful, victims of a seemingly doomed franchise. In Monday’s game, a grandmother escorted her nine-year old grandson to the V.I.P. section. The child, wide-eyed with an Expos cap and baseball glove, looked bewildered as he was surrounded by six-foot tall Red Sox fans. The grandmother frowned every time they stood up to cheer and did not utter a word...
...stone lanterns, which once marked village boundaries, are lit to signal the day's end. Summits are adorned with stones carved with haiku, such as this passage left by Princess Kazonomiya in 1864 on her way to an arranged marriage, escorted by a retinue of 10,000: "As we rush through the pass I look back towards the capital and ponder the transience of existence...