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...capped by a select few covers, including songs by Burt Bacharach, Nancy Sinatra, a few lines of Bob Dylan and a spur-of-the-moment Beatles song, “I’m So Tired,” which Gershon said her band had never played together before trying it out a few minutes before the show...
...cousin by Israeli soldiers in June. She had apparently snuck into Israel through a section of the Green Line as yet unfenced. An Islamic Jihad leader in Gaza, Abdullah Shami, said the strike already showed the failure of the "racist isolation security fence." But the bombing is likely to spur Prime Minister Ariel Sharon into speeding up construction of the barrier, despite opposition from Washington...
...learning programs such as Head Start, and quality daycare. We must also enable their families to provide them with a safe, warm home and healthy food. Plenty of economic research shows that these programs combined would increase America’s human capital, create a more productive work force, spur faster economic growth, and reduce crime and poverty. Conservatives and liberals alike agree that these are good goals to have...
Cell phones became merely the emblem of the extravagance to which the city folk so recklessly surrendered. Spur-of-the-moment meals at expensive restaurants and $100 water cooler rentals from HSA came as naturally as the phrase, “I’m blowing up.” But Dartboard is not cool enough to blow up. Paying monthly fees is not what Dartboard had in mind when he imagined getting a B.A. So Dartboard gives up his aspirations of joining the aristocratic majority of cell phone possessors and reluctantly endures his perpetual lowliness. Maybe it?...
Ideally, the new formation will spur a Crimson offense that must replace its two starting strikers—and leading goal-scorers—from last year...