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...cites the free earplugs the library makes available to patrons, several thousand of which have already been distributed, as a way that she is helping to achieve a compromise between the two dueling interests...
...drove him four years ago to this larger historical subject was his disgust with the squalor and venality of American politics. (One wonders what he thinks about re-emerging from his studies at the present moment.) He has returned not only with a handsome thesis but also with a thousand oddments and curios he collected along the way--such as remarks by Charles Kingsley, the Cambridge University historian who served as chaplain to Queen Victoria. Kingsley, visiting Ireland in the 1840s, described the Irish as a biological subspecies: "I am haunted by the human chimpanzees I saw along that hundred...
...Pentagon weighed deploying several thousand ground troops to Kosovo, an event in nearby Bosnia last week highlighted just how wrong the Clinton administration was when in 1995 it assured Congress that troops would not stay there long. The Pentagon opened what's basically a Wal-Mart PX at Task Force Eagle, the central base for G.I.'s deployed in Bosnia. The 10,000-square-foot facility is good for the morale of the troops, who are restricted to the post for most of their time in Bosnia. The store features souvenir mugs, Beanie Babies, T-shirts, electronics, CDs -- the best...
...estimate a thousand," says Nehal S. Patel'02, co-chair of the formal committee...
...Fifteen thousand households were protected under rent control, but the city has only restored 1,500 to affordability, according to Duehay...