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...Having a nurse do everything for you is hard," he says. "I feel I'm always imposing. I find myself saying 'I'm sorry.' I've got dry skin, and I'll often say, 'Could you take a towel and just vigorously scrub my face? I'm sorry.' Or, 'I'm sorry, but my nose is running.' But everybody's willing to help. I used to have a hard time asking. I'm better about it now. But the more I can do for myself, the better I feel...
...cash." International relief aid is getting into the sealed areas, but Hamad notes: "It's not a deep-rooted solution, it's only cosmetic." Despite the setbacks, the overwhelming margin of the vote shows that PNC is willing to keep peace negotiation on track. Israel had threatened to scrub May negotiations on the unresolved status of Palestinian refugees, Israeli settlements in the occupied territories and jurisdiction of Jerusalem if the PNC did not remove the clauses. PNC inaction might also have dealt a blow to the reelection bid of Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres, who faces a stiff challenge from...
...cash." International relief aid is getting into the sealed areas, but Hamad notes: "It's not a deep-rooted solution, it's only cosmetic." Despite the setbacks, the overwhelming margin of the vote shows that PNC is willing to keep peace negotiation on track. Israel had threatened to scrub May negotiations on the unresolved status of Palestinian refugees, Israeli settlements in the occupied territories and jurisdiction of Jerusalem if the PNC did not remove the clauses. PNC inaction might also have dealt a blow to the reelection bid of Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres, who faces a stiff challenge from...
...drawing of creepers on a rock done around 1827, has a wiry inquisitorial line and a fierce truth to the motif that remind one, without exaggeration, of Durer. In landscape his hand roamed free, giving the foreground hill in Volterra, the Citadel, 1834, a lively splotching of indeterminate dark scrub whose excited marks carry more visual weight than the distant hill town. But his early portraits are maladroit Ingres, and he was almost incapable of bringing off large biblical or literary compositions: his late painting of Dante and Vergil menaced by the she-wolf at the edge of the Dark...
...House Intelligence Committee member Bill Richardson called the report "not terribly visionary in what needs to be done to improve the CIA's internal procedures." CIA director John Deutch tried to remedy that by announcing a series of reforms, including promises to choose CIA station chiefs more carefully, to "scrub" paid informants more thoroughly and report accurately on human-rights abuses by the unclean, and to require better briefing of U.S. ambassadors. Deutch's efforts only partly mollified agency critics. Not for the first time, congressional debate raged over whether the agency's human "assets" in other countries aren...