Word: siting
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...took sides, with anti-Castro Republicans arguing for asylum, and Democrats asking for the letter of the law, which seemed to indicate that a father's will should prevail. As the situation in Little Havana grew more tense, Attorney General Janet Reno sought to get Elian to a neutral site. The Miami relatives were unwilling to give him up. At 4 a.m. on April 22, Reno was in phone negotiations with the family, having already put in motion a raid to seize Elian. At 5 a.m. federal agents moved in, powered past 50 protesters and moved swiftly through the house...
...proposal leaked by the White House in the New York Times on Tuesday, Palestinians would get sovereignty over the holy outcropping. Muslims believe Haram al Sharif, as the site is known in Islam, is where Muhammad ascended to heaven...
...Palestinians would be forbidden to conduct archaeological digs there and would acknowledge the "Jewish connection" to the site. But the "connection" is that Temple Mount is believed by Jews to be the site of Solomon's temple, the center of the original Jewish universe. And conservatives in the Israeli parliament are loath to give it up, even if Barak is game...
...search for "recipes" on Yahoo turned up dozens of cooking sites, ranging from starchefs.com which features the likes of Alice Waters and Jean-Georges Vongerichten, to yumyum.com which caters to college students on a budget. Many off-line favorites have companion sites like bettycrocker.com cooksillustrated.com and foodtv.com There's even a Weird and Different Recipes site, offering spider salad and curried kangaroo tail...
...There was suddenly all this pressure to be profitable," says founding editor Rich Schwerin. "We were working our tails off on projects that would never see the light of day." Nothing seemed to work: the site went through three redesigns, repositioned itself to focus mainly on e-commerce and even sponsored the big screen at Giants games across the street. But TheMan.com's attendance was disappointing, certainly not enough to keep the investors at Highland Capital happy. "People were like, 'Who are you? Another Maxim? Another Details?" says James Lombardi, site product manager and brother of co-founder Steve Lombardi...