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Probably the most embarrassed over the missing text is Pennsylvania, which will be host of the bicentennial celebration of the charter's ratification in Philadelphia next year. "We have no idea what happened to our copy," says the state's head archivist, Harry Whipkey. Next-door Delaware can't provide a copy either; like Maryland, Delaware returned its version to the Federal Government after the Bill of Rights' ratification. So Philadelphia officials are now contemplating crossing the Delaware to see if they can borrow New Jersey's original for the festivities...
...book is, on the surface, a football story. Harold Gravely is the head football coach at a large university in the South. Having captured the national championship by defeating Clemson in the Sugar Bowl 20 years ago, Gravely has produced a series of losing, embarrassing seasons. Gravely also faces lung cancer, a dead marriage, and a town of angry, Southern football fanatics who call him late at night and make insulting comments about the size of his wife...
Although the book's chronology ends in October, Mylroie thinks that the book still has bearing on the ongoing crisis, especially as we head into direct negotiations with Saddam...
...usual in the turbulent politics of Bangladesh, demonstrators thronged the streets of Dhaka, the capital, and were sporadically dispersed by soldiers wielding batons and tear-gas canisters even as they fortified themselves with makeshift barricades. The government ordered the arrest of the two women who head the main opposition groups -- Sheik Hasina Wazed of the Awami League and Begum Khaleda Zia of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party -- but the two remained undaunted. As it happens, Hasina is the daughter of a slain former President, and Zia is the widow of another. Vowed Hasina: "Ershad's last days have arrived. We shall...
...relieved," said Beat Graf, head of the local administration, after hearing the decision. In the town's central square, some men grumbled about the Diktat from Lausanne but otherwise took the ruling in stride. The women seemed pleased if a bit restrained; when night fell, however, a few quietly decorated the fountain in the all but deserted square with flowers...