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...only two spectators lingered, one of them sleeping. At approximately 1:15 a.m., Nash called off the reading. He explained that a few minutes earlier, his "neck and cheek muscles had started going into spasms...
...parking lot in Baghdad filled with Iraqi soldiers blocking the exits hardly seemed the place for a "delightful unplanned camping trip." David Kay, head of a multinational team of 44 United Nations inspectors, had his tongue firmly planted in his cheek when he used those words. But it is true that the Iraqis did not attempt to molest Kay's team. The inspectors lounged in relative comfort aboard their air-conditioned bus, played touch football and stayed in communication with the outside world through a suitcase ground station that Kay had rigged up to bounce signals off satellites...
...grandiose new lighthouse already looks like an anomaly, while the old poverty huddling at its edges seems all too contemporary. Overarching light and enforced darkness, cheek by jowl. The Manichaean contrast is altogether fitting for this, the 500th anniversary of Columbus' world-shattering voyage, which is itself increasingly seen in opposing terms of black and white. The Columbus quincentennial officially kicks off this Columbus Day, Oct. 12 -- but it has even now generated enough contrast and controversy to outlast its appointed year and, quite possibly, this decade...
Local listeners are tuning in news programs for updates on Cannon's status, and DOYLE WAS HERE T shirts have popped up for sale. WMYI, a Greenville radio station, has been broadcasting a tongue-in-cheek musical tribute to the famous fugitive ("What would y'all do if I broke outa jail?"). Police are not amused. "I don't understand the logic," says Hugh Munn, a spokesman for the South Carolina law enforcement division. "He's not Davy Crockett...
...free expression. But despite poor health in recent years -- his eyesight is failing, he wears a hearing aid, and he broke his hip in a fall last year -- he was determined to keep his seat as long as the likely replacement was another conservative nominee. With cantankerous tongue in cheek, Marshall would tell his clerks, "If I die, prop me up and keep on voting...