Word: lets
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...thought a judicious application of violence could strengthen his negotiating hand with the Israelis. Or he wanted to restore his footing with Palestinians alienated by the deeply frustrating process of peace. Or he had given up hope of ever negotiating a settlement acceptable to his people and decided to let them express their profound dismay...
Seizing a pretext, Arafat let loose his forces. Through all the days of stones and bullets and Molotov cocktails, he uttered not a word of restraint. On the contrary, his state-controlled media gave the war cry. Begged by President Bill Clinton and other world leaders to call a halt, he replied contemptuously, "Our people do not hesitate to continue the march to Jerusalem...
...story begins in 1996, when Spencer Elementary School teacher-librarian Terri Nalls had a problem. Her students, 92% of them low income, couldn't read a stop sign let alone a book. She wondered if Mike Brumby, who ran the Tift County Foundation for Educational Excellence, could help her buy a reading program called Accelerated Reader...
...over again, would you have let Ariel Sharon go up to the Temple Mount...
...makers of Pay It Forward know misery must be occasionally relieved. They give Spacey some funny curmudgeonly lines to snap in his American Beauty way. They let him hide his worst scars under his shirt, so they are revealed only when Hunt finally, gently touches them in the half-light of her bedroom. And Osment gets a couple of moments to reveal his inner Beaver...