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...auditioners applying suntan lotion in varying SP factors, drinking bottled water sporting various designer labels, and several comfort-loving individuals who had brought portable beach chairs and recliners to help them endure what looked like a three-hour wait. They did not look like hardy types ready to brazen out an extended ordeal in the Outback, let alone the Hollywood jungle...
Like the former President, Harlem attracts, repels and attracts again. It is a sad and brazen place and yet, oddly, one in which it is possible to see something essentially American that one cannot see elsewhere. Here all the music and shadows of the country flow together. Here thrives the figure of the adorable con artist, like Harlem's Mr. Rinehart in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, whose "world was possibility." He was "Rine the runner and Rine the gambler and Rine the lover and Rine the Reverend." His multiple identities occupied "a world without borders...where Rine the rascal...
...most brazen violation occurred last year in Dinghai, the site of the first Opium War, where town officials flattened nationally protected city walls and houses to make way for profit-making office blocks. Local citizens had tried to secure a judicial order to halt demolition. But under pressure from the city government, the court allowed the wrecking balls to continue swinging. "Today, everyone's so concerned with making money that we think it's fine to tear down historic buildings for a quick payout," says Liu Bingkun, a lecturer at the China State Academy of Fine Arts...
...Such brazen disregard for human life is as perplexing as it is infuriating. If these sanctions were killing innocent people, yet accomplishing American foreign policy goals, then sanctions would be equally inhumane, but at least it would be possible to understand why people like Powell would support them. However, as the current situation stands, even the savviest foreign policy hawk would have trouble showing how these sanctions are furthering US interests in the region...
...brazen murder made headlines across the country--and so did the search for a motive. "I can't say absolutely that it was a professional hit," says DeKalb district attorney J. Tom Morgan, "but it was obviously a planned assassination." For a man so well liked, investigators have learned, Derwin Brown had plenty of enemies. Theories and motives abound as two grand juries prepare to hear evidence. Corruption at the jail was supposedly so prevalent that Brown campaigned on auditing the books, firing the culprits and replacing three decades of cronyism. "Clean it up," his supporters had shouted into bullhorns...