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...both preparing to name leaders to run for Prime Minister in national elections on June 23. For Likud, Sunday's assault on Musawi was a well-timed reminder to voters that it is implacably committed to the country's physical security. As expected, Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir got the nod from his bloc. In Israel's first primary ever, Labor members elected Yitzhak Rabin to replace Shimon Peres...
...company for those suffering from lover's block. Founded four years ago by Martine Greber, Love Letters has written more than 25,000 letters for customers worldwide. The catalog offers selections for < lovers, friends and even in-laws, and features headings like General Love, New Relationship and, as a nod to the '90s, a 12-Step Birthday. Prices start at $16.95, delivery not included. If you can't find what you want, Love Letters will compose a custom letter or speech for you. How does that old song go: Love letters straight from your checkbook...
Theodore's own experience is telling. Having received the OAS-brokered endorsement of Aristide and the army's nominal commander in chief, as well as a tentative nod from some segments of the armed forces, he was expected to head a new government. But on Jan. 25, seven plainclothes policemen bearing assault rifles burst into Theodore's office as he was meeting with political party leaders. According to Theodore, he and his guests were marched single file out to the driveway, then ordered to lie face down on the pavement and surrender their weapons. "One of the policemen began...
...result is a big, sprawling, high-minded and honorably intended work that never quite comes into focus. The story concerns a Liverpool boy named Shanty (no doubt a nod to the high percentage of Irish Liverpudlians as well as to McCartney's own ethnic background), born during the air raids of 1942 (Part 1, War). The second, third and fourth sections (School, Crypt and Father) detail typical adolescent angst, including the death of Shanty's dad. In the oratorio's second half, the hero meets Mary Dee, marries her (Wedding), impregnates her (Work), fights with her (Crises) and finally, after...
Tucked into a heavily wooded mountain ridge straddling Loudoun and Clarke counties, Mount Weather remains largely invisible. On Loudoun County's tax map, parcels covering some 434 acres are simply designated "United States of America." Area residents nod knowingly at mention of the facility. "For years residents of Loudoun County have quietly smiled to themselves that if all the other roads in the county were choked with snow and ice, that one road would be practically dry," says Rob Montgomery, a county employee. "Care was always taken that people could get in and out of there...