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...other BBC reporters with what he told his bosses and the Foreign Affairs Committee become stark. Nevertheless, Blair let Hoon swing in the wind. "I did not authorize the leaking of the name of David Kelly," Blair told reporters. "Emphatically not." Campbell is the government's other big endangered beast. His fists-first rebuttal of Gilligan may have been justified by the blood libel he thought Gilligan had perpetrated, but it also gave his many critics a weapon to use against him. Campbell told Blair he would quit after senior judge Lord Hutton completes his inquiry into Kelly's death...
...ever relied on. In all his identities Ray is an obsessive interpreter: he relentlessly decodes everything he sees and hears, whether it's a surveillance tape, Matthew Arnold's Dover Beach or a chance remark by his wife. "You turn into a kind of crouched thing, a crouched listening beast," the anguished Iris tells him, "listening for what everything I say might mean, beyond the simple thing I said itself." To watch Ray come up against the limits of his ability to make his life - his lives - make sense is moving; it's difficult to think of a more convincing...
...companion fled, escaping moments before the police arrived. That narrow miss could have grave consequences. "Commanders like Azahari are the dangerous ones," says a senior regional intelligence official. "If we can get Azahari and maybe seven or eight others like him?cut off the head of the beast?then the ordinary foot soldiers won't be much danger any more...
...identities Ray is an obsessive interpreter: he relentlessly decodes everything he sees and hears, whether it's a surveillance tape, Matthew Arnold's Dover Beach or a chance remark by his wife. "You turn into a kind of crouched thing, a crouched listening beast," the anguished Iris tells him, "listening for what everything I say might mean, beyond the simple thing I said itself." To watch Ray come up against the limits of his ability to make his life--his lives--make sense is moving; it's difficult to think of a more convincing depiction of the intimacy that prevails...
...SARS may have leapfrogged to humans from exotic delicacies like the civet cat and raccoon dog, Beijing has launched a massive crackdown on the wildlife trade. In the past week, police have combed wet markets in metropolises like Guangzhou and Shanghai, confiscating writhing bags filled with all manner of beast. But eating yewei, or wild-flavor cuisine, is a key element of new China's conspicuous consumption, and it won't be easy to curb the appetites of the nation's voracious businessmen and discerning government officials...