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Amid all the pomp and solemnity surrounding his arrival in Washington, Barack Obama found time to perform a couple of quiet salutes to an important constituency. On Sunday morning, he and Vice President-elect Joe Biden placed a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery. On Monday morning, the President-elect slipped over to Walter Reed Army Medical Center for an unannounced visit with troops wounded in Afghanistan and Iraq. Much of the country may have missed those brief visits, but the men and women of the U.S. military didn...
...some of them nudes, that Wyeth had made between 1970 and 1985 of a typically subdued, slightly Rubenesque young blonde woman. In the summer of 1986, the New York Times reported on its front page that an American collector named Leonard Anderson had paid $6 million for these previously "unknown" works...
...reserve officer Ariel Seigelman. A youth counselor, he and his wife were savoring their first trip to a café after the birth of their son when Seigelman's cell-phone rang. He recognized the caller's number as the Israeli Defense Forces. "Your nation needs you," an unknown voice said...
...year. Last month the CTA filed its own initiative for a 1? sales-tax increase earmarked solely for public schools and colleges. But Sanchez - like others in the state - says he will not know precisely how to budget for this upcoming year until a legislative solution is passed. "The unknown," he says, "is very scary...
Lebanon's traditionally volatile border with Israel reprised its role as a bellwether of Israeli-Arab tensions Thursday morning as unknown militants fired at least three Katyusha rockets into Israel. It was the third such attack since the end of Israel's 2006 Lebanon war. The first two attacks involved a number of 107-mm Katyusha rockets, which have a range of seven miles, but were poorly executed - some did not explode, one did not make it across the border, and one did not even leave the launcher...