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...then, with little provocation except perhaps the shock of a solidly four-digit Dow, folks started buying. By noon, JP Morgan was only down a handful. IBM, well, IBM pretty much stayed down, but was a handful off its lows. And before you knew it, the Dow had stabilized, wavering between 100 and 150 in the red, and then spent the afternoon chugging back toward zero, re-clearing 10,000 along the way. (No milestone celebrations this time, though, and toward the end of the day's trading it was heading back down again...
That was supposed to shock Barak into helping Arafat. But the Israeli Prime Minister made no response. Angry and isolated, Arafat prepared to send a message Barak couldn't ignore. He held a series of midnight meetings in late September with local leaders of his Fatah party's Tanzim. The Tanzim, which means "organization," is an armed militia that answers to a network of local warlords. "Be ready. We will be facing difficult times," Arafat told the leaders. Officials close to Arafat say he was counting on a tough Israeli response to trouble, followed by international condemnation of Israel...
...were playing for all or nothing," says Ilic. "We wanted to get rid of Slobo once and for all, and we knew we could only achieve that by liberating the parliament and television." Ilic organized several thousand Cacak men and busted through six police roadblocks to lead his shock troops into the capital...
...Before you go crafting your sob story, it bears noting that college admissions officers are among the world's finest b.s. detectors. A case in point: one student's Cornell essay about a relative's homosexuality struck an admissions reader as gratuitous: "This has got shock value written all over...
...After briefly congratulating myself for penetrating one of the nation's last bastions of secrecy, I descended into shock. It wasn't that I was bowled over by the committee room - really just a cluster of windowless rooms in a basement - but that I suddenly realized my own admission to college was a total fluke. In adhering to the conventional wisdom dished out by parents, teachers and so many guidebooks, I made almost every misstep in the book. I had bought into every one of the myths about applying to college...