If you are sitting, you can still project power by stretching your legs and arms and by spreading out your belongings on the conference table, and claiming more territory.

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Richard Buckley, the lead archaeologist on the project said the unusual position of the skeleton's arms and hands suggested he may have been buried with his hands tied.

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And British pressure is at work in the U.S. government's insistence that Israel provide arms to the PA - even though the U.S. envoy in charge of this project, Army Lieutenant Gen.

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That body, too, has failed to project widespread authority inside Syria, where most groups still cobble together their own funding and arms.

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