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...Meeting of Friends" -- was getting under way, anti-American protesters edged too close to the downtown park for Panama's fledgling police force, which responded by firing their weapons into the air and lobbing tear-gas canisters nearby. Bush's Secret Service detail had no choice but to hastily surround the President and his wife, hurry them off the platform and into the armored limousine and, with guns drawn, beat a hasty retreat from the ensuing chaos...
...BOTTOM LINE: Enchanting voices surround but do not solve a mystery...
Because he is their father's favorite son, ominous circumstances (the attempted fratricide by his brothers) surround Joseph; his brothers, still driven by jealousy, end up selling him as a slave to a rich Egyptian. A further mixture of tragi-comic events culminate in Joseph's condemnation to a jail cell. From there, the story spirals into an exciting spin and eventually Joseph finds himself in the Pharaoh's service...
...Light and other Coors brews. Filled with carbonated water, the lucky cans look and feel the same as those that contain beer. But pull the tab, and a light-activated voice mechanism will proclaim you the winner of one of more than 40,000 prizes -- ranging from CDs to surround-sound audio systems -- valued at almost $1 million in all. Now, if you'd rather just have a beer, Coors will offer a refund or another beer, depending on state laws, says a spokeswoman...
...feeling. Most of the people live in the city's housing projects--brown brick buildings with narrow, dimly-lit corridors and miniature apartments. The schools, such as Thomas Jefferson High, have thick steel mesh spread across each broken window, and iron fences topped with masses of razor wire which surround the school and its playground...