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CYPRUS People Power They came waving olive branches and E.U. flags and bearing a message for their longtime leader, Rauf Denktash: "We can't wait another 40 years." More than 50,000 Turkish Cypriots - a quarter of the island's Turkish population - crowded the streets of Nicosia demanding Denktash sign a U.N. peace deal to reunify Cyprus after 28 years and enable them to join the E.U., as Greek Cypriots are set to do in 2004. Under the plan, which U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan says must be signed by Feb. 28, the two sides would come together...
...Separated from his wife, who went to work, and oldest son, who went to school, the first book tells of Rehr's escape from lower Manhattan. In a typically dramatic moment Rehr must wait inside the lobby of his building with his asthmatic toddler while the space fills with dust from the collapsed buildings. Eventually reconnecting with the rest of his family, part two covers their homeless life in the months after the disaster, a 9/11 story rarely heard about. Rehr tells of bouncing from one temporary living arrangement to another while struggling to find out information on the state...
...They’re going to have more hold procedures, wait-lists, admissions strung out over the spring, that sort of thing,” Freeman says...
...comment about Roe, and the assistant asked, "Should she?" So that's how we found out we'd won the case 7-2. The Supreme Court sent me a telegram - they sent it COD, or collect - telling me they would send the opinion. I didn't want to wait, so called someone I knew in Washington and sent them over to the courthouse to read the opinion...
...think Americans don't want the government making the decision for us, but we want the decision to be made carefully. So when people are asked about a 24-hour waiting period, they think, well, sure, a woman should have to wait to make sure she's making the right decision. But the problem is those waiting periods are instituted primarily in rural areas, by abortion opponents, So for a woman who's traveled for the procedure, that's another day of traveling and related expenses. These little nuances can have a major impact on reproductive rights, but the public...