Word: stops
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...please stop the Sri Lanka bashing and turn to supporting a nation with a mosaic of cultures that was sadly beset with over a quarter-century of separatist war. Journalists often ignored the atrocities committed by the Tamil Tigers - a group that assassinated two heads of state. Your article should have clearly congratulated Rajapaksa for having the strength of character to stand up to the protests of the international community and rid his land of the scourge of terror. Chandri Gunawardhana, Singapore...
...hour after the ceremony, Marcos telephoned Enrile and demanded that he "stop firing at the palace." Enrile said he had no troops there. Marcos asked him to call U.S. Ambassador Stephen Bosworth to find out if the U.S. could provide the Marcoses with security in flying out of the palace. Enrile promised to do so. At 9:05 p.m., four American helicopters picked up the President, Imelda and a contingent of relatives and aides, including General Ver, and flew them to the U.S. air base...
...they went scrap-happy. In just over a week, the program ran through most of its $1 billion in funding. The House of Representatives quickly voted to allot an additional $2 billion. In the Senate, opposition from John McCain and other deficit hawks slowed passage but appeared unlikely to stop it. "I always thought that cash for clunkers would be an effective stimulus, but it seems to have exceeded expectations," says Princeton University economist Alan Blinder, an early booster of the idea. "It would be a shame to cut it off here...
...believe that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) could have done more to stop Iran from pursuing nuclear weapons? Memi Sofer, BEERSHEBA, ISRAEL...
...need to stop pretending we are honest and instead be honest about cheating. The ethical battle of our time is about the fairness of medical technology: genetic engineering, cloning, steroids, plastic surgery. We are O.K. with Viagra, LASIK and Paxil because they restore basic human functions, but we get really uncomfortable when people improve themselves by buying their pert breasts or giant pecs. It's no different from the original objections to wearing makeup, dyeing one's hair, and oiling up before an ancient Greek wrestling match - which would not have been necessary if ancient Greek men had had makeup...