Word: straws
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...TIME: Gene Robinson as a bishop-elect is the straw that broke the camel's back...
...apologizes for the darkness. The orphanage has a generator, but no gas. Williams shares a double bed on wooden slats with four babies. The older kids have metal-frame bunk beds. The mattresses, where they exist, are inch-thick foam pads. Rambunctious kids have torn down pieces of the straw ceiling. Daylight shines through the corrugated tin roof. Williams' main worries are food and medicine. During peacetime, she would get bulgur wheat from the World Food Program. Now she gets nothing. The price of a bag of rice has quintupled since the latest round of fighting began. Her storeroom holds...
...Last week, the White House continued to distance itself from that intelligence. But British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw insisted he and his besieged government "believe in the intelligence behind the claims." After Straw declined to name the two nations he said provided the U.K. with its yellowcake evidence, British press reports identified them as France and Italy. Both nations loudly begged to differ. The French were indignant. "No French service or administration was in any way connected to this bogus information," snaps a French diplomat, noting that France's foreign intelligence service issued a rare public denial. "We resent being...
...Prime Minister into doing exactly that. The reason: the Pentagon's announcement that two Britons held for months at Camp Delta, the U.S. military prison for suspected terrorists at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, won't be returned to Britain for trial, despite repeated requests by Foreign Secretary Jack Straw. Instead, the two will soon face American military tribunals whose due-process standards are derided almost universally throughout Europe as shameful. Among the shortcomings of the tribunals, which are designed to choke off any flow of useful information to al-Qaeda: judge and jury are replaced by panels of three...
Bloomstein told residents they could seek a building moratorium from the City Council, which would effectively halt development projects in the area—a tactic the Riverside neighbors had successfully used to block the building of the art museum. Last June, in an informal straw poll, ANC members voted 24-1, with two abstentions, in favor of seeking a moratorium...