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With this first political defeat, Bush returned to his oil company. But the early 1980s marked a rough time for Bush's company, as declining oil prices drove down profits and forced him to merge his company with the Spectrum 7, a competitor...
...face of the renewed Palestinian intifada to charge that Barak's peace efforts have compromised Israel's security, and promising a return to his peace-through-strength philosophy. It may be a measure of the depth of their fears that many of the same Israeli voters who drove Netanyahu out of office only 18 months ago for his failure to make meaningful progress toward peace with the Palestinians are now flocking back to his corner...
This is not your father's Latin, which was taught to elite college-bound high schoolers and drilled into them through memorization. Its tedium and perceived irrelevance almost drove Latin from public schools. Today's growth in elementary school Latin has been spurred by new, interactive oral curriculums, enlivened by lessons in Roman mythology and culture. "One thing that makes it engaging for kids is the goofy fun of investigating these guys in togas," says Marion Polsky, author of First Latin: A Language Discovery Program, the textbook used in Fairfax City...
...giving was the spirit in the Douglas household, then stealing was the name of the game in the Madonna mansion. While she was sleeping upstairs earlier this week in her London palace, thieves broke in, nabbed the keys to her Range Rover and drove off. (You get inside Madonna's house and then you steal her car? And I thought the British were revolutionary!) This is the second time in six months that Madonna's house has been burglarized. And to think, she moved to London because it was "safer...
...Terriers slowly crept to within striking distance. Buoyed by its rebounding advantage, and aggressive play from Jason Grochowalski and Stijn Dhondt, B.U. started a 16-2 run with ten minutes left to pull to 67-60. Partly out of desperation, B.U. heaved up long distance shots and drove the lane, looking to draw fouls and maybe hit the errant three...