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...After serving as a soldier for 17 years, Tamban left the army under a cloud following a dispute with his commanding officer. ("I shot him, but the bullet only creased his skull," he says with a grin.) Now he has a small army of his own: 24 full-time youths patrol the site with homemade swords. In addition, the entrance to the mining area is staffed by a couple of heavily beribboned paratroopers in full uniform. Tamban only smiles again and doesn't reply when asked about the paratroopers. Others are less shy. "The security at Talawaan...
...Italy, perhaps, demonstrates the point. Nobody sensible imagines that Silvio Berlusconi, its new Prime Minister, is likely to exile his opponents to the Lipari Islands, as Benito Mussolini was wont to do. Nor does one necessarily have to agree with the Economist's famous pre-election pronunciamento that the cloud of criminal allegations surrounding Berlusconi made him "not fit to lead the government of any country." All you need to do is look at the record. The sheer scale of Berlusconi's financial and business dealings - when the state-owned networks and his own Mediaset empire are taken together...
...secrecy. But today's Freemasons insist that tattletales are no longer-if ever they were-subjected to "having my throat cut across, my tongue torn out ... and buried in the sands of the sea." In fact, so eager are Britain's Freemasons to dispel the sinister associations that still cloud their reputation that the United Grand Lodge of England (UGL) whose 300,000 members represent 90% of the Masons in England and Wales has hired a public relations agent...
...defense lawyers could review the documents. "I believe the Attorney General has a more important duty than the prosecution of any single case, as painful as that may be to our nation," Ashcroft said. "If any questions or doubts remain about this case, it would cast a permanent cloud over justice, diminishing its value and questioning its integrity...
There's a final reason the movie musical is dormant. The form is about transcending speech with song, allowing the soul to soar; and rapture is out of fashion in pop culture. With its image of lovers perched on a cloud under a smiling moon, Moulin Rouge can rekindle that joy. The film dances; the heart sings...