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...most recent announcement alleged that some 45 Uighurs in the provincial capital of Urümqi had been arrested in raids that uncovered plans to kidnap athletes and others attending the 2008 Beijing Olympics. An earlier report alleged that a young Uighur woman had tried to smuggle a bomb aboard a commercial aircraft in an attempt to bring it down...
...Warren, the second a dazzling catch-and-throw in the right field corner by senior Tom Stack-Babich—the damage would have been worse. The low defensive moment came when first baseman Chris Rouches dropped an easy underhand toss from the pitcher, putting the leadoff runner aboard in the fifth. “Right now we’re playing badly,” Walsh said. “We had a couple of errors in the infield that were inexcusable.” Warren, who had spent the previous night in the hospital, did not allow...
...Rice agreed Hill could meet with his North Korean counterpart only if the Chinese were there. When the Chinese didn't arrive to host the dinner in the ornate dining room of the St. Regis Beijing, Hill made the decision to go ahead anyway. That day North Korea came aboard, and two weeks later, the talks resumed...
...Along the same lines, lobbyists close to McCain wear as badges of honor the times he has tossed them from his office. Charlie Black, a senior McCain adviser who has admitted to making calls to lobbying clients while aboard the McCain campaign bus, represented tobacco giant Philip Morris in 1998 when McCain decided to go to war with the tobacco industry. "He called me up and said, 'Look, I am not talking to you about this tobacco stuff anymore, and don't talk to the staff either,'" Black remembers. He said he called McCain's staff anyway, only...
...Estimated cost per ticket aboard the proposed four-passenger craft. The 10,600-mile (17,000 km) journey currently takes more than 21 hours and costs about...