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...served, at about 2 p.m. One of the civilians appointed himself cook. He had few ingredients to work with: rice, pasta and lentils. When Israeli soldiers brought in additional food for the clerics, they shared it with everyone inside. "They ate what we ate," Salah says, "and in equal portions." Eventually, the monks began stripping the leaves from lemon trees in the courtyard. "We'd make soup out of that, with salt," says Salah. Ja'ara and his comrades chopped up lemon rinds and fried them. "It was enough to make you sick for two weeks to taste...
...gimmick, playing, say, a cowgirl on a hot day in Texas or a French maid hanging her culottes on a line. The performers are women of widely varying body types who see stripping as self-expression rather than a job, and they draw audiences of both sexes in equal numbers. New Burlesque bears almost no resemblance to modern strip clubs, which have been pushed to extremes in order to attract an increasingly demanding clientele...
...Members of Congress were readily available for comment along the usual lines. There was the always-reliable (and understandable) "why didn't you tell us before?" complaint, voiced with equal brow-furrowing by top Senate Democrat Tom Daschle and top Republican spy-watcher Richard Shelby. There was the hunt for some serious White House negligence, headed up by House Minority Leader Dick "full investigation" Gephardt. And there was a third response, something Fleischer probably wished the White House reporters had been thinking all along: There is nothing scandalous about this...
...Lincoln Motion Picture Company and released "The Realization of a Negro's Ambition." Soon entrepreneurs, black and white, were making black-cast pictures in New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Jacksonville, Fla. - virtually everywhere but Hollywood. Eventually some 500 race films were made and were shown in an equal number of segregated movie houses...
...Some districts varied in size by nineteen people. Now, that may sound silly when districts have more than 600,000 people. But the principle of keeping districts as close as possible to each other in population is one of the most important in the Constitution. It goes back to equal representation. If 600,000 people are served by one congressman and 600,019 are served by another, the second group has less clout...