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...press and politics often walk hand in hand. He first started working at RAI in 1982, and when his show went off the air, he served briefly as a European Parliament member, representing Italy's center-left political coalition. But supporters are hoping his efforts will be the first chink in what has been a tightly controlled media market. "It's still early days," says journalist Marco Travaglio, a regular guest on the show. "But we're going to try. If it works, it could set a precedent." (See the top news stories...
...might open punch’s fledgling flight ultimately turn into something greater—a chink in the calcified armor of social institutions far too opposed to change for their own good...
...visceral level. Its quiet moments are sublime, packed with unspoken emotion as Andi dances across vertical rock walls, Toni looks out at the dark mountains at night with an expression as inscrutable as the mountains themselves, and the piton hammers into the rock face with a defiant chink...
...instantaneous nature of cyberattacks that has rendered defenses against them obsolete. Once an enemy finds a chink in U.S. cyberarmor and opts to exploit it, it will be too late for the U.S. to play defense (it takes 300 milliseconds for a keystroke to travel halfway around the world). Far better to be on the prowl for cybertrouble and - with a few keystrokes or by activating secret codes long ago secreted in a prospective foe's computer system - thwart any attack. Cyberdefense "never works" by itself, says the senior Pentagon officer. "There has to be an element of offense...
...called in Mindanao - between the two families. A day after the killings, Arroyo put two southern provinces and a city under a state of emergency and deployed more troops to the area. All permits to carry firearms there have been canceled. "Retaliatory violence can be expected although a small chink of hope remains that Mangudadatu may rise above rido and avert further bloodshed," says Ian Bryson, a regional analyst at Singapore-based Control Risks...