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...Train wreck. "A good fighting opposition plays a role not only in being constructive with their own policy agenda, but holding the government to account." Where is Mark Latham since the tsunami struck? LATHAM'S BLACKOUT. Anyone But Latham. "The news about my health has not been good." DEAD IN THE WATER. "I have decided to resign both as Labor leader and as member for Werriwa." Whack. "Public life can take it out of people and, after 17 years and two serious life-threatening illnesses, the time has come to put my family and my health first." Bring Back Beazley...
...operation is routine--300,000 performed every year. If you are the patient, however, it does not feel routine to have your chest cracked open and, after a period of pleasant blackout that seems to last an instant (and that later makes you think it's what death and eternity must be like), to come swimming back up into consciousness shaking uncontrollably from the cold. (Your body has been packed in ice for the procedure.) A coronary bypass is routine for the surgeons but memorable for the patient...
...many times did headline writers trot out groaners like "big fat Greek flop"?) But we defied the Cassandras. The graceful canopy that construction crews hauled over the main Olympic stadium just in time didn't come crashing down. The flashlights we tucked in our bags for fear of a blackout were never used. And for all the anguish over our alleged lack of antiterrorism chops, the Games came and went without the slightest scary incident. I'll admit it: even some Greeks didn't think we could pull it off. In fact, the Games' organizers have yet to find...
...cordon encircling the shrine. "I was a history student, but now I have this," he said, waving aloft his Kalashnikov. He said he didn't expect to see his family again. A fighter in the shrine claimed to have seen a vision of the Imam Ali during a power blackout, and soon men sang and chanted and pointed to the balcony. They called for al-Sadr to make an appearance, but their leader never came...
...automatically cut off to protect itself from damage. And so at 12:39 p.m., the electricity sputtered off in Athens. Thousands of people, including Transport Minister Michalis Liapis, were stranded in the city's glittering new metro; hundreds more were stuck in elevators for up to four hours. The blackout soon spread to the country's agrarian south and the Ionian Islands, the worst power outage in Greece in decades. Authorities did their best to reassure the public, but on Thursday a fresh power cut caused by a faulty cable struck the Acropolis and two neighboring districts for an hour...