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...someone who has dominated the U.S. media for months, Walker's identity remains markedly indistinct. He is, as both Woody Allen and Winston Churchill might say, a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. It's a public relations trick many professionals would love to pull off so well: we know so little about him - and we're left wanting to know everything...
...cease-fire was in the overriding national interest of the Palestinians. But those same factions cite continued Israeli assassinations of their leaders and the absence of any easing of the blockade on Palestinian daily life as reasons to keep fighting. Few observers of the region are expecting Arafat to pull a cease-fire out of the hat even if Washington threatens a last goodbye...
...Friday afternoon in June, four months after his liberation and with precious little accomplished, Sanders leaned back in a chair and took a deep pull off a crack pipe. Nothing he had done since his release had felt more familiar. He had spent the day helping an acquaintance move, then wound up in the empty living room as a crack pipe was passed around. He declined on the first round. The next time he reached out. The first hit is always free...
...they have to do it for at least an hour a day in order to lose weight. The body doesn't really start burning its fat stores until after 30 minutes of activity. Exercising too intensely can actually work against you by interfering with the body's ability to pull energy from fat cells. You are more likely to maintain any weight loss you achieve if you incorporate walking into your daily routine...
...After nearly a decade at Enron she was high up enough, or grumpy enough, to send the boss a pull-no-punches, put-it-on-record letter telling him - for a very detailed seven pages - that his company was more or less a Ponzi scheme, and it sounds like she knew she wasn't telling him anything he didn't already know. She was circumspect enough to do some networking across the fence at Arthur Andersen and put the same concerns to Andersen's Enron man, David Duncan, and two other partners...