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...invited the children for a field trip," daycare center owner Jun Ducat, told a local radio station via mobile phone. Ducat, along with at least one accomplice who wasn't immediately identified, took control of the bus at around 9 a.m., parking it illegally outside Manila's city hall. When the bus got the attention of police, the men announced they were holding two teachers and an estimated 30 children hostage. The men said they were armed with an Uzi submachine gun and hand grenades, although Ducat insisted that he didn't intend to hurt the children. "In case...
...they didn't master it for another century. The two monks at La Grande Chartreuse who are each privy to part of the liqueur's formula no longer need to spend their days at Voiron distilling the stuff. Instead, the technology allows the pair to oversee the process remotely via television monitors in their cells. The goal, says Roget, is not to boost production but rather to allow the monks more time for spiritual activities. The monks' vocation "is not to make liqueur but to pray," he says...
...Logan airport and New York City. “The goal is to get people to the airport as quickly and cheaply as possible,” said Tom D. Hadfield ’08, who sponsored the original UC Rides legislation. The first 200 people to be paired via the UC rides system will receive five-dollar gift certificates redeemable at the Harvard Square eatery b.good, Hadfield said. The UC voted two weeks ago to allocate $1,000 to have the new service designed by a Seattle firm co-founded by former Campus Life Fellow Zachary A Corker...
...getting the Shi'ite-dominated Iraqi government to display the same evenhandedness has been a challenge. In the West Wing on Monday, President Bush and Vice President Cheney spoke with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki via video conference. Gesturing from a large flat panel screen in the cramped Situation Room, al-Maliki assured Bush and Cheney he was committed to implementing the most recent security plan for Iraq in an "evenhanded manner," according to the White House. That was exactly what Bush and Cheney wanted to hear...
...unity government was ratified on Saturday, in simultaneous proceedings in both Gaza and the West Bank connected via video conference technology to overcome Israeli prohibitions on most Palestinians' traveling between the two locations. Israel's response was predictably negative; officials pointed out that the new government had not accepted international demands to renounce violence and recognize Israel, and that even the moderates who now run key ministries are tainted by their political cohabitation with Hamas. Other governments showed more flexibility, ranging from full recognition of the new government (Norway, Arab countries) through cautious optimism (the European Union, Russia, the United...