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...Israeli soldiers over an 18-year period, rather than any single dramatic defeat, that forced Israel to withdraw from Lebanon last year. And that's precisely the effect Palestinian militants want to mimic through a protracted low-intensity war in the West Bank and Gaza. There may be umpteen reasons why Lebanon is quantitatively different from the West Bank, but a steady toll of Israeli lives is unacceptable to the Israeli electorate...
JENNIFER ANISTON fiercely despised being defined by her hairdo, so she impulsively chopped it into a bob not long after she married Brad Pitt. "I did it mainly to relieve me of the bondage of self," she tells May's Vanity Fair, sounding very Naomi Wolf. Umpteen fashion magazines raved about it. But it turns out she hates this new look. No, wait. HATES it. Truth be told, as a top British hairdresser noted, it's less than flattering to Aniston's long chin. "It's just not me. I hide behind my hair," she says. "It's my shield...
Rich stole umpteen million dollars that he owed in taxes and got away with it, thanks to Clinton's presidential pardon, which was preceded by high-level lobbying from the likes of former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and King Juan Carlos of Spain...
...years ago, take jobs for suits and skirts, in tall glass buildings with surname amalgamations for names--and the brave few who are headed out to underfunded elementary schools and service positions. I have seen how heartbreaking the graduate-school application process is. Currently, my roommates have posted their umpteen medical-school rejection letters around the real prize: one addressed to "Dear Applicant." Four years of labs, and some med school still doesn't bother to look up your name...
...course, there was never much in it for the states anyway, other than good press; in contrast to the tobacco suit, nobody was dangling umpteen gazillion simoleons in settlement money. Still, the defection does allow Redmond a little positive spin. Naturally, it was greeted as good news on Wall Street, where MSFT jumped more than 5 points in late-day trading...