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Zacarian also created a stir when she blocked all but one of UMass' 22 shots, including five taken on penalty corners in the first half alone. UMass, ranked No. 9 in the nation at the time, scored the single goal of the game 4 minutes into the second overtime...
...short of what Arafat - or any other Palestinian leader -would be able to accept and survive politically (or even physically). He'd been speaking out of two different sides of his mouth all along, but now the game was up. And that left him no room to maneuver, except stir up confrontation in the hope that it would force the Israelis and their American backers to offer him a better deal...
Next year, he estimates, the tax cut would make the difference between 2.6% and 3.4% growth. He believes the tax cut would significantly buoy employment and do little to stir inflation. Adds Richard Berner, chief U.S. economist at Morgan Stanley: "These tax cuts are a big deal. The tax-cut train has left the station, and it is clearly going to be stimulative...
...Republic passport last week turned out to be none other than the eldest son of North Korea's Dear Leader Kim Jong Il. Outside of North Korea, no one has seen much of Kim Jong Nam or even knows much about him, so his surprising arrival caused quite a stir. But for a man whose family and homeland provoke considerable gossip, speculation and fear, he came, he said, for the most prosaic of reasons: he wanted to go to Disneyland...
...possible that the opposition could still try to stir things up in the provincial cities, especially in Mindanao. Because it's such a class-based thing, with the middle and upper classes backing Arroyo while the underclass supports Estrada, there is a real fear that if the poor come out on the streets again - and it really won't take much to get them there, particularly since they clearly sensed their power this week - that there could be widespread looting and chaos...