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...beheaded a week after the siege. The three remaining hostages of Abu Sayyaf - two of them American - could also end up paying with their lives. Then there are those who live in Lamitan, where 70% of the people are below the poverty line and where children's faces darken when they hear mention of Abu Sayyaf. Better off are the seven youngsters, the eldest 16, recently released by Abu Sayyaf after spending two years carrying bullets and scouting for them. And, perversely, a mother who saw her husband and brother killed during a rebel raid, but saved...
...couldn't she have done so without comparing Laura Bush with Hillary Clinton? Hillary did not wear me out. I like a good, strong, intelligent woman. Hillary went on to become the only First Lady elected to the Senate. Did Hillary cause a few moods to darken along the way? You bet. As any woman knows, the boys do not like women who step onto their turf. Laura Bush has chosen to live quietly "a pillow away." Hillary did not relish that role. Good for both of them. I love it that women have choices. ROCIE CARBALLO-GRAVER Chapel Hill...
...Arafat's organization officially insisted that it remains committed to the cease-fire, but it was the organization's own rank-and-file members that claimed responsibility for the latest terror attack inside Israel. And the sharp uptick in violence over the past week will further darken prospects for any resumption of dialogue - already grim in light of suspicion over Mr. Arafat following the discovery of an arms shipment bound for the Palestinian territories from Iran...
...matters who's a pillow away from the presidency. David Gergen writes in Eyewitness to Power that a chipper President Clinton would arrive in the morning only to get a call from Hillary, after which "his mood would darken." The Bushes keep a lid on criticism. "In politics you always have an opponent. It shouldn't be your spouse," she says. It's impossible to judge a marriage from the outside, yet it's hard to picture Mrs. Bush ever darkening the President's day. The peace she carries with her spills over...
...course, even if you manage to convince a doctor to move to the country, you have the challenge of getting erstwhile patients to darken his door, says Professor Janet Hardy Boettcher, a registered nurse and the director of the school of nursing at Radford University in southwestern Virginia. "Rural people believe, for the most part, that you?re well until you can?t move around," she says. "That?s certainly true in this area." That cultural aversion to doctors? offices may also be fueled by the fact that as a rule, country doctors are not as up-to-date...