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...almost the same thing, of course. Special-operations troops are trained to kill swiftly to keep terrorists from fulfilling their threats to massacre their hostages. Commandos usually warn hostages to lie down because they will be shooting at anyone standing up. When the special troops, wearing gas masks, burst into the thick smoke of the residence hallways last week, they had trouble distinguishing hostages from guerrillas. One hard-charging lieutenant shouted, "Anyone who moves gets shot!" He almost fired at a hostage who grabbed his hand and would...
...House an advance copy of former agent Gary Aldrich's salacious memoir of his tenure at the Clinton White House. "The hallmark of the FBI has been that it's free of politics," says Kentucky Representative Hal Rogers. "With Filegate and other possibilities of political interference, the bubble has burst...
...Arizona Cardinals: Rae Carruth, WR, Colorado. He is very fast and has a breakaway burst. He drops a lot of balls, but the Cardinals need a deep threat...
MINA, Saudi Arabia: At least 180 Muslim pilgrims died when a tent city outside Mecca burst into flame. Witnesses said the fire started shortly before noon, possibly caused by the explosion of a gas cylinder used for cooking. High winds coupled with 104-degree heat caused the blaze to spread quickly among some 70,000 wood-and-canvas tents. Firefighters needed several hours to contain the blaze. As often happens in catastrophic fires, the majority of the casualties were victims of the side-effects of the blaze, in this case the stampede that broke out as the flames spread...
...synonym for postemotionalism. They're always trying to be coolly affectless about hotly affecting issues, hoping blunt, acceptant talk about sexual congress will disarm the subtle pains it always implies. This is a newer, more interesting form of innocence than the '50s kind, and when their true feelings burst through, their breakdowns and breakups are really scary. Like Inventing the Abbotts, this movie knows that the questing phallus is the main source of youthful romantic angst. But Chasing Amy doesn't try to shift the blame for its heedlessness to its times or the social structure. It doesn't believe...