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...During a Monday session of the Knesset, Olmert was heckled by legislators as he admitted "deficiencies" in the way the war was handled. The opposition leader, Benjamin Netanyahu of the right-wing Likud party, and the likeliest challenger to Olmert's coalition cabinet, then went on to list what he described as the government's multiple "failures" in readying for war, protecting israelis from Hizballah bombardments and carrying out an indecisive campaign. In a rare show of unity, Likud right-wingers and Labor legislators joined to call for a high-level inquiry into all that went wrong...
...Fisher, 51, an avid scrapbooker from Austin, Texas, the original appeal of the three-day Girl's Get-A-Way cruise, promoted as a tour for Christians who want to be "the women God wanted them to be," was the chance to create a spiritual memory book. "The scrapbooking session was described as commemorating the important events of your spiritual life, with all necessary art supplies provided," says the IBM software architect and devoted Protestant. But as it turned out, Fisher never once set foot in that workshop. She ended up by the pool with her daughter Christy, 27, where...
...works in youth services, organizing excursions and junior sporting events. At a recent Thursday night training session, the lean and quietly spoken rover seems as straight as one of his high-flying drop punts. Yes, the grounds are hard and the ball contests can be furious, says Pickett. But he finds playing in front of large home crowds exhilarating. In territory where you are either a West Coast Eagles or Fremantle Dockers fan, Pickett barracks for the Melbourne Demons. Still, his mind is also on Perth. "I'll be playing there for Kimberley Spirit Under-19s in the country championships...
...Borroloola's problems due to alcohol continue. Just last month an Aboriginal woman stabbed her elderly partner in the stomach with a bread knife during a drinking session at their home. Such incidents are as common in the Top End as the crunch of green aluminum cans underfoot, and the slowly decaying human beings who have discarded them...
...month and will compete in the Miss America pageant in January, with skin-cancer awareness as her platform issue. She has already spoken dozens of times to kids about how she was a hard-core tanning-bed user--baking three or four times a week for 25 minutes a session--until she learned that the nickel-size mole on her back was a potentially life-threatening melanoma. Lietz says she gets the rapt attention of young audiences when she shows them some of her 27 surgical scars, including an 8-in. track on her back. "They really do have...