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...Communist style press conference arranged Thursday by the Chinese leader. Just before the two leaders walked to their positions Friday at the lecterns in front of the presidential retreat, the atmosphere had to be suitably arranged. Two of the dark suited ones worked a wash tub sized vacuum cleaner over the red carpet and the expansive water fall that had been showering over a tall rock formation was turned off. As Bush spoke, his translator scratched and tortured her steno book, making circles and slashes as if trying to get the pen to write. In flawless Chinese, she repeated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shunted About in Shanghai | 10/22/2001 | See Source »

...camera leaves much violence out of the frame, even if the gory aftermath of the deceased remains in plain sight. In the Hughes’ Menace II Society, the gritty urban ghetto was reflected in brutal, excessive violence, whereas here, in restrained Victorian England, with the slums looking cleaner than ever; much remains sanitized until all hell breaks loose. That the brothers are gifted natural filmmakers is evidenced as when the first victim succumbs in a murky alleyway, and all we see is a gleaming silver knife flashing out of the gloom. The shot’s effectiveness lies...

Author: By James Crawford, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: An Inferno Without the Flames | 10/19/2001 | See Source »

Though the condition of the river is still not ideal, the overwhelming consensus is that it is safe, and indisputably cleaner than in the not-so-distant past...

Author: By Lande A. Spottswood, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Water Quality of Charles Declines | 10/19/2001 | See Source »

...This one was a little cleaner [than the Marquette goal] because she up and powered it,” Wheaton said...

Author: By David R. De remer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ripmaster Leads No. 11 W. Soccer Past Cornell | 10/15/2001 | See Source »

Roko Camaj owned the most enviable views in New York City. As a window cleaner for the World Trade Center's Twin Towers, his work space offered staggering panoramas of the city he adopted when he arrived from Montenegro in 1969. Most days, he surveyed the surroundings from indoors, operating a remote cleaning machine from the rooftop; but the windows on the 107th floor could not accommodate the machine, and he would attend to them manually, suspended from a harness. Camaj, 60, was on the observation deck on the 107th floor in 1993 when a bomb hit the building...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Facing The End | 9/24/2001 | See Source »

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