Word: stranglehold
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...expect Norton to be overruled later in the week) to appease the state GOPers whom Bush offended late last month when he came to Florida to strike an environmental pose at the Everglades National Park with a bunch of Democrats. It may even break the supply-side stranglehold Florida put on the House when it engineered a 247 to 164 vote last month to bar exploration in the eastern gulf until April...
...dating together. "We understand each other," says Nicole Terio, one of the group. "It comes from knowing what it means to grow up between two cultures." But the luk kreung's close-knit community and Western-stoked confidence sometimes elicits grumbles from other Thais, who also resent their stranglehold on the entertainment industry. The ultimate blow came a few years back when Thailand sent a blue-eyed woman to the Miss World competition. Sirinya Winsiri, also known as Cynthia Carmen Burbridge, beat out another half-Thai, half-American for the coveted Miss Thailand spot. "Luk kreung have made it very...
...Israel tightened its closure around Palestinian towns early last week, blockading Ramallah, the "intifadeh capital" of the West Bank, because it said it had uncovered a terrorist cell planning further attacks on Israelis. But E.U. ministers warned that they might suspend a key agreement with Israel if the economic stranglehold of Palestinian areas was not relaxed. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon gave military officials discretion to ease restrictions, but many roads to Palestinian villages throughout the West Bank remained blocked by trenches or piles of rubble set up by the Israeli army...
...League. Nope. Princeton says we don't need one. Penn would probably say the same. With the Killer P's exerting such a stranglehold on the rest of the league every year, it's no wonder they don't see a need for a conference tournament. They have the most to lose from...
TIME.com: On the one hand Israel has Ramallah in a stranglehold; on the other hand it's lifting the blockade on a number of West Bank cities and talking of allowing Palestinian workers back into Israel. What's Ariel Sharon's game...