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...Budruk, including Vilas, do want the leopards dead. They angrily accuse forest officer Dashrat Sabaj Wayal, who visits the villages armed only with the principles of conservation, of doing nothing. This isn't true. Wayal has helped trap and release 58 leopards since January 2000, and in February played tug-of-war with an animal that had a man locked in its jaws for 15 minutes until it gave...
...step up their suicide bombings before the election with the aim of pushing Israelis still farther away from negotiations. "Hamas and Islamic Jihad are going to decide the Israeli elections," says a senior Palestinian security official. Israel's right wing already has a clear lead. If Hamas continues to tug on Mitzna's beard, that margin could become devastating...
That paper, the Paris-based International Herald Tribune, is little known in the U.S. but prized by Americans who live and travel abroad. The tug-of-war over it won outsize attention for the glimpse it offered into the leading families of America's media royalty--and into the divergent growth strategies pursued by their companies...
...Administration has wrestled with how to handle the downturn, the leaders of its economic team have often bickered so openly that aides have found themselves struggling to suppress snickers. Bush's top economic adviser, Larry Lindsey, and Glenn Hubbard, chairman of his Council of Economic Advisers, don't just tug at each other over whether or how to combat the slide in the stock market. They like a good roll in the dirt over such issues as the definition of a market bubble. Says one spectator: "It's like a boxing match but with highly dweeby language." Treasury Secretary Paul...
...strong debt to earlier poet-translators like Robert Bly, Kenneth Rexroth and Ezra Pound who championed a style of direct, aggressively unacademic translation. Following their example, Barks was able to create an American Rumi: one who speaks across the centuries with a voice as direct and imperative as a tug on the shirt...