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...into a little shell, and they score a goal, and you start to get a little defensive," said Cleary, who's seen his squad let opponents back into the game a couple of times before. "That's the last thing you need," he added...
...scariest part of the recent TV show The Day After was not the destruction, which was mildly portrayed, but the catatonic state of people who were not as much shell-shocked as merely continuing the "sarvival" strategy which they had practiced before the bomb went off. All too often we take a catatonic stance--but to do so at the times when someone like Weinberger is in the room is suicide. If students agree that some issues demand participation, what would they have protestors do--sit stonily silent without even applauding the end of the speech? Stand silently in robes...
Because of an agreement reached in July to increase payments for farmers' crops, Poles will have to shell out as much as $1.72 billion more at the grocery counter to recoup the expenditure beginning next Jan. 1. The authorities have proposed three schemes that would each produce the same total revenue but would differ in how much individual prices are raised. In a rare bow to customer preference, Poles are permitted to vote for the plan they dislike the least by calling special telephone numbers at government offices and television stations...
...building will serve various commercial purposes, including housing a kosher restaurant, but it will also have a roof garden and spaces for religious festivities. As Wines designed it, PAZ (the name comes from the initials of the three principals in the development company) will resemble a ruined brick shell brought to life by a new glass enclosure. Two existing ornate portals will be replicated to provide four entrances, an allusion to the house of the patriarch Abraham as described in rabbinic writings. Explains Wines: "The design symbolizes the blend of cultures as well as the contrasts of decay and renewal...
Arafat enjoyed one advantage: if fighting spreads, the powerful militia of the Islamic Unification Movement, which controls parts of the city, has vowed to come to his aid. Both sides, however, gave their word to spare Tripoli. Arafat apparently promised not to shell rebel positions from within the city, thus risking return fire, while Abu Mousa pledged not to invade. Nonetheless, rumors floated through the city all week that Arafat was about to flee. On Thursday, Italian Defense Minister Giovanni Spadolini announced that the missile launcher Orsa and the destroyer Intrepido stood ready off the Lebanese coast to evacuate Arafat...