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...early January 2002, and I wish I could close the back doors of this jeep to keep out the cold afternoon wind. I am tired and uncomfortable in a bulletproof vest, and scared of a bullet into the back of our vehicle looking for my head, or Ami’s, or Simon’s. It is reading period, and I am back in Israel for my yearly reserve duty; this time I am assigned to patrol the area between Jenin and Afula. We are five armored jeeps, our mission is to secure the famous 1967 border?...
Tomas Jirsa, a confident, gum-chewing 19-year-old from Prague, is standing on Kildare Street in Dublin, handing out leaflets and wearing a bright red vest that proclaims: I'm from the Czech Republic and against nice - ask me why. Nice is shorthand for the European Union enlargement treaty the Irish government dearly wants voters to ratify this Saturday. (They already rejected it once, last year, thanks to a swirl of conflicting emotions: fear that it would undercut Irish neutrality and sovereignty; an urge to give a bloody nose to the government of Prime Minister Bertie Ahern...
...coming back again." The Munich victory prompted a churlish journalist from the French sporting daily L'?quipe to question the sudden improvement in her performances. But he picked the wrong target. Radcliffe is one of the sport's leading antidrug campaigners, and runs with a red ribbon on her vest to show her opposition to drug abuse. After L'Equipe's innuendo, she made a point of asking the International Association of Athletics Federations to test her outside competition - though she had already tested negative five times in the past year. Radcliffe knew she would be a target for drug...
...with his friend, lobbyist Bruce Widener, when the weapon discharged. Nobody was hurt, but Representative John Linder, Barr's opponent in the Republican primary for the state's Seventh District, found plenty of ammunition. At his next appearance with Barr, he joked, "I'm going to wear a bulletproof vest." "It's certainly not a joking matter," Barr shot back, "the way Linder is treating it." Barr speculated the gun might have had a "hair trigger," so that the merest touch could have set it off. "I certainly did not pull the trigger," he asserted. All the same, he should...
...Geezers and geezerettes go around in juvenile clothes, shorts and flip-flops and jokey T shirts (my goal is to live forever. so far, so good). Embarrassing. A man my age should not aim for boyishness. He should wear an old tweed jacket and wool trousers and a silk vest with a great belly under it and have wild eyebrows the size of rats and carry a knobby walking stick and smoke torpedo cigars and sit around kicking the bejabbers out of the government. A guy can do that in Scotland...