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Everybody fronts (with accompanying photos) Elizabeth Dole's announcment yesterday that she was abandoning her presidential campaign.
One also wonders whether, if Woolf were alive today, she would join the hordes of writers abandoning fiction for the memoir.
Reviewers praise Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar for abandoning his campy proclivities to make a film noir with social bite.
§ 1101(a)(15)(H)(ii)(a) (1994) (an alien "having residence in a foreign country which he has no intention of abandoning who is coming temporarily to the United States to perform agricultural labor or services . . . of a temporary or seasonal nature").
The USAT lead goes high with the U.N.'s decision, driven by a fear of abandoning East Timor to murdering militias, to buy some time by delaying until Friday the planned evacuation of its remaining personnel from East Timor.