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...eyes had been lasers, mine would have been burned out." ZACH WAMP, Republican Congressman of Tennessee, after President Bush asked him to back off a proposal that would have required Iraq to repay $10 billion in aid. Wamp backed...
Every crushing loss a team of mine has ever suffered has come while I was wearing some piece of their apparel. And every time I wear some piece of apparel, my team suffers a crushing loss. When my soccer team, Arsenal, lost in the last minute of extra time in the European Cup Winners’ Cup final in 1995, my fat, salty tears fell on my red team shirt. When the Jets lost to Denver in the 1999 AFC Championship, I furiously tore off my itchy, ill-fitting Curtis Martin jersey. When those same damn Yankees beat the Mets...
...last week, thousands of poverty-stricken Bolivians protested in the capital, La Paz, and around the country, railing at President Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada. Sánchez - or Goni, as he is called - sent the army to restore order. As Bolivian soldiers fired on demonstrators, impoverished Indian mine workers used crude slingshots to hurl lighted sticks of dynamite back at them. But they were no match for the army's tear gas and bullets, and the clashes left as many as 80 people dead. The people around Goni had had enough. First, Vice President Carlos Mesa renounced...
...bringing on interns this summer and there’s no better place for me to look than my alma mater, ” she said. “Today’s graduates understand that there are opportunities in different places whether it be smaller companies like mine or companies in other industries...
...gleam I saw in the eyes of those who told me I “had to hear this song” and threw on “Karma Police.” Prophets have a tough time of it, particularly when they run into rival sects—mine was U2 at the time...