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...calling in army sharpshooters to gun down sheep - including newborn lambs and heavily pregnant ewes - in the fields where they grazed. The cost: $10 million and rising in compensation to farmers and an estimated $150 million a week in losses to the tourist industry as visitors heed calls to avoid the countryside...
...tough...when you need that [achievement in high school athletics] to get into a school like Harvard. You never have that option of taking some time off after high school," Lentz says. "When things began to go bad, I decided I couldn't avoid the problems. I decided the best thing would be to get out of here for a couple months...
...With the pressures of being role models for the younger players and competing on the diamond, the three Winthrop residents rely on their laidback natures to avoid stress...
...Andrew Purvis: We were in two villages that had been shelled during the night, and we had to leave in a hurry to avoid the new round of shelling expected when the government's cease-fire expires at midnight. The village of Shipkovice was shelled while we were there. It has been reported that NATO had flown drones over the area and shared the intelligence photographs with the Macedonians. Yet the Macedonians still ended up shelling a village packed with civilians. Luckily, no one was killed there, although there were one or two civilian casualties in other villages. We found...
...Absolutely. And that's why Powell had been stressing that it's in everyone's interests for the Arab leadership to avoid pouring fuel on the fire. The only Arab leader gaining from the intifada is probably Saddam Hussein, who is boosting his popularity throughout the Arab world by the support he's offering. So the moderate Arab regimes would like the level of violence reduced, but they can't be seen to be not supporting Arafat and the Palestinians. So it's certainly in their interests to not oppose a measure of cooperation between Arafat and Sharon...