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...theater, before the networks' gala schedule announcements to advertisers, there have been ID checks, bag searches and long lines. (At NBC's Monday show, security at the Met opera house very nearly did not let this writer carry in his laptop, even as women with handbags large enough to blow up a city block sashayed past the checkpoints.) And as Fox began its presentation at Manhattan's City Center, a voice over the sound system announced the words that, in this day and age, strike dread into the heart of anyone...
...eradicate a disease that has already killed 235 and infected 4,884 people in the mainland. "The state of the rural health-care system is like SARS," says Ray Yip, senior project officer at UNICEF in Beijing. "You can cover it up for a while but it will blow up in your face...
...military's former lofty status. GAM, sadly, is the perfect adversary. The rebels squandered most of the goodwill in Aceh by extorting funds from civilians and committing scores of their own atrocities. GAM has about 5,000 troops, but few analysts believe the military can deliver the decisive blow top generals are predicting. All that's certain, sighs Jones, "is that the ordinary Acehnese will be the ones to suffer most. It's going to be a terrible, bloody mess...
...This administration refuses to hold open meetings,” he said, “and we get to see no documents until they are to be voted upon. It causes these blow-ups that don’t have to happen when numerous state, city and federal officials have concerns about what we’re doing in executive sessions...
Luckily for Nowinski, he has never been on the receiving end, but he has on occasion had the opportunity to flatten other wrestlers’ foreheads with a sudden blow to the head...