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...Palestinians, Erez is a chokepoint where only a lucky few can exit from Gaza, usually for medical emergencies. Bassam al-Wahedi, 26, a tall, soft-spoken journalist, was one of them. He had gone blind in one eye because of a retinal illness, and surgery at a Jerusalem hospital was his only hope of regaining sight in that eye. Since Gaza is denied all but basic humanitarian needs under an international boycott of Hamas, many complicated surgeries are no longer done there...
...trees and the fish when you’re a gorilla, you know.”But the other House mascots would not let the Gorilla have the last word.The Currier Tree responded by saying, “there’s nothing you can be better than a tall oak tree. Mather’s mascot doesn’t even match their shield. They’re the, what are they, the tigers? And there’s a gorilla. It doesn’t make any sense.”The outdoor raucousness only continued what began...
Adams (Paul Giamatti) didn't catch many breaks. He wasn't tall and commanding like Washington, wildly gifted like Ben Franklin or silver-tongued like Jefferson--and, he notes, he doesn't have an inheritance, so he must work for a living as an attorney. This colors his personality; Giamatti plays him as a trudging bulldog, noble but vain, intellectual but provincial, idealistic but cautious. And it colors his politics, giving him a darker view of life than those of his colleagues with cleaner fingernails...
...keep pace with the Bears in the standings Jenkins came up to the plate in the fourth inning with his team nursing a narrow lead. Ever the hacker, Jenkins unloaded on—what else—a first-pitch fastball and saw it soar out towards the tall net above the fence in left field. “As soon as I hit it, I took two hard steps out of the box and I looked up and I thought, ‘You know, I think that has a chance,’ and the more I looked...
...Tourism Ireland photo displays showcased Irish monuments, Irish people, and Irish ales. Employees handed out pamphlets on study-abroad and travel. Women in fitted and fringed orange sportsuits handed out samples of Bailey's toffee liqueur. Nearly blocking a speaker at the front of the stage, an eight-foot tall poster advertised cheap flights between the two capitals. Tourism Ireland has since 1995 been promoting St. Patrick's Day parades in cities around the world such as Tokyo, Singapore and Moscow. This year two cities were added to the roster: Beijing, and the digital world of "Second Life," which hosted...