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"Other nations are reluctant to dispatch their own peacekeepers without an invitation from Jakarta.
Besides supporting the Congress directly through helping the legislature respond to emerging issues and government challenges, GAO also supports the Congress by maximizing its own value and seeking to be a model agency in the federal government.
These letters remind us that, although "underappreciated" in her own time, Powell was hardly slaving away in monkish anonymity.
Instead, Said "grew up not in Jerusalem but in Cairo, where his father, an American citizen, had moved as an economic expatriate approximately nine years before Edward's birth and had become the owner of a thriving business; and there, until his own departure for the United States as a teenager in 1951, the young Edward Said resided in luxurious apartments, attended private English schools, and played tennis at the exclusive Gezira Sporting Club as the child of one of its few Arab members."
The Yankees pull in close to $200 million a year, more than any team, and own baseball's highest payroll, $87 million in 1999.