In a banner that runs across the bottom of the MSNBC screen most of the time, the words "Breaking News" appear in big letters, even at the intermittent moments when the news has ceased to break.
Speaking at a press conference, Mr Mitchell declined to comment on the IRA statement, seen by Unionists as a thinly veiled threat to break the cease-fire.
Among other things, prosecutors charge that she read a public statement from him urging his organization, the Islamic Group, to break a cease-fire with the Egyptian government.
"As the deadline has expired, we direct all the commanders with the mujahedeen in the field to break the cease-fire and go ahead with all target-oriented missions," Mr. Salahuddin said today.
"I think the Israelis are trying to break the cease-fire, and they take the easiest targets," said Radi Garari, a deputy minister of the Palestinian Authority who was Mr. Marshoud's boss.
The mixed messages raised the question of whether Hamas might be trying to provoke the Israelis to break the cease-fire, or perhaps to establish new facts on the ground — farmers tilling the borderland, fishermen fishing farther out — that would increase its leverage in negotiations.
Canada's oil sands, where most projects need an oil price of $60 to $80 a barrel just to break even, would cease to make financial sense.
If the example of Washington's humility was in the consciousness of our leaders, then perhaps "Washington" would cease to be broken.
And then there's the elaborate, hard-to-unravel system of "disfellowshipping," and the shunning of members who both cease to believe and break the Bible's moral code in some identifiable way.
Indeed, if the furniture is broken, it ceases to exist, while the wood does not.
