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Yasser Arafat looked as if he couldn't believe his bulging eyes. Inspecting the damage to his living quarters caused by the latest Israeli assault on his Ramallah headquarters last week, the Palestinian leader checked out the new window in his bathroom, courtesy of Israeli firepower; a broken mirror hanging above a photograph of him with his daughter, now 6 years old; the scattering of debris covering his exercise bike and bed. "I was supposed to sleep here last night, but I had some work downstairs. Everybody knows this is my bedroom," he told reporters, suggesting that the Israeli troops...
...rate even a question from Bethune, but he can wax enthusiastic over bigger luggage bins and more elbow room in the cabin. "Come back and look at this," he says eagerly, pointing out that 9 of every 10 seats on the new 767 are on an aisle or a window. "We found out customers would rather have an empty center seat" than have more leg room, he says, "so our seats are not as far apart" as those of some competitors...
...inner sanctum, choked with chanting de- votees, is barred to nonbelievers. But it's possible to gaze down on its gold-plated lotus domes from the second-story window of the Udai Silk shop across the street. Even from the relative concealment of the silken perch, cameras are still strictly forbidden. Once a customer managed to sneak in a shot, but the telltale flash sent police running upstairs. "They grabbed the camera, and ripped out the film," says proprietor Udai. The view is free?that is if you can resist the eager sales pitch. The slightest flicker of interest...
...seven wonders of the ancient world. Critics of Goddio's work say he has stretched himself too thin, dashing from one project to another more out of love for adventure than for the serious discipline of archaeology. But it is hard to argue with his success in opening a window on ancient Egypt that was closed for centuries. So rich are the 8,741 artifacts that Goddio has brought up so far that Egyptian officials are talking about an international tour and a permanent museum of underwater archaeology in Alexandria. Recently, as his latest Herakleion mission was winding down, Goddio...
...someone makes a deal with another school, that’s their business,” Wofsy said. “But as far as I know, that honoring procedure [of other schools’ early decision programs] is out the window for next year...