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Whatever may be amiss, CBS News is doing more of it these days. It has gone all out for fast pace, assertiveness and emotion. Dan Rather has always been the most intense of anchormen, a tightly coiled man; if you want the news delivered low key, go to Brokaw, or to ABC's Peter Jennings, who seems the most reflective of the three. In crises, Rather's highly effective quick, clipped delivery heightens the drama. There he is, facing a television screen, calling in Secretary Weinberger or Secretary Shultz, asking "in brief" for a comment on Libya. They oblige...
...Harvard-Yale weekend, for example, there were more people at the tailgate than at the football game itself. Now, there’s nothing wrong with rocking a tailgate—but there’s something amiss if football doesn’t play a significant role in the day’s events...
...luckiest guy ever," and Patrick Lawler, 23, isn't about to disagree. The construction worker was building a house in Colorado when his nail gun backfired, driving a 4-in. nail through the roof of his mouth and into his skull. Amazingly, Lawler didn't realize anything was amiss until six days later when he went to a dentist with what he thought was a nagging toothache. It took surgeons four hours to extract the nail, which had penetrated his brain. The uninsured Lawler is expected to make a full recovery but now must contend with the headache...
...misunderstanding" between the brothers "and we are working to clear it." On Nov. 25, six directors at Reliance Energy, a company headed by Anil Ambani, resigned without offering a reason. Shares of Reliance Energy fell 5.8% on Nov. 25 while Reliance Industries stock dipped 2.2%. Word that something seemed amiss had by then reached the company's large group of foreign investors. The events at Reliance "have come as quite a surprise to people outside India," says Praveen Martis, an energy analyst at Wood Mackenzie, an Edinburgh-based consultant. "Now they will want to look more closely at this company...
...newspaper. And Stanislav Varivoda, a Russian correspondent based in the capital, says Kim's image was also missing from the city's Mansudae Assembly Hall. But Varivoda told TIME he could find no evidence that other portraits were missing. Meanwhile, an aid worker in Pyongyang said he saw nothing amiss in the dozen buildings he visited last week. However, a source close to South Korean intelligence told TIME that some portraits in the capital and three other cities have been replaced recently?after they were defaced with paint. Not every North Korean, it seems, is willing to lay down...