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...just moved on to greener pastures. When the commonwealth gold medalist, Stephen Cherono, moved to Qatar, there was uproar in Kenya, especially when he, as Saif Saeed Shaheen, went on to beat his former teammates at the Paris athletics championships. More recently, Bernard Lagat became a U.S. citizen, again amid further protest. Now, many wonder whether these athletes should be allowed to compete for their new host nations...
These oddities, in fact, seem to be the result of a self-conscious effort to make the movie more interesting by the addition of material that actually strikes the viewer as extraneous and awkward amid the interviews. The trippy montage of pole dancers is simply disorienting; there is no call for nudity in an Enron documentary, whether or not it breaks up the monotony...
...hundred feet away, hidden inside a trade-show booth, operator Bob Quinn chuckled as he sat in front of a small remote-control box. His Talon robot, a product of the engineering firm Foster-Miller, wasn't on an actual battlefield mission. He was just showing off last week amid the Pentagon's biggest gathering for the latest in military gizmos...
...dissolved the government and suspended civil liberties in a move widely condemned by human-rights groups and foreign governments; in Kathmandu. Despite the end of emergency rule, the King will maintain the controversial Royal Commission for Corruption Control, which last week arrested former Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba amid alleged irregularities in multi-million dollar drinking-water contracts awarded during his tenure. Mr. Deuba has denied the charges, calling the Commission "unconstitutional" and "illegal...
After serving as Speaker from 1995 to 1999, Gingrich resigned from the House entirely amid accusations of corruption and adultery. But many media outlets have speculated on a possible return to politics for Gingrich in the 2008 presidential election...