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...officer who had negotiated her release, was killed trying to protect her. Pentagon officials said the soldiers had not been told of the release and signaled in vain for the car to stop. Though President Bush expressed regret, a stunned Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said, "We were turned to stone" by the news. "We must have an explanation for such a serious incident, for which someone must take responsibility...
...annual meeting of world leaders at Davos, Switzerland, in January, one of the most exciting moments followed an impassioned speech by President Benjamin Mkapa of Tanzania, who proclaimed that his country can do nothing about poverty so long as it is burdened with heavy debt payments. Sharon Stone leaped to her feet and called for the stunned audience to help--and promptly raised some $100,000. But after the stars fade from the headlines, it's easy to forget such worthy causes...
...Clarkson is a good team,” head coach Katey Stone said. “They’re hard working, They have a good goaltender, and it’s playoff hockey. It’s really different hockey—there’s a lot more juice...
...other countries. And making general claims about the value of study abroad is a dubious science at best without solid studies to back them up. (Lack of evidence, incidentally, goes both ways—hopefully Harvard will compile a few of these before it sets anything in Curricular Review stone.) I also think that spending a semester or a year in a foreign country, no matter how inebriated you get, is fun, relaxing and, sometimes, a broadening experience...
...Shakespeare of the sound-byte, the sucker punch, the hyperbolic epithet. His 1994 Rolling Stone obituary for Richard Nixon, whom he loathed, was titled “He Was a Crook”; his catchphrase was “Fear and Loathing.” With language, he was a fetishist, a libertine, drunk on whiskey and the utter extravagance of his writing...