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One reason politicians seem so dorky is that other than the filibuster, there aren't any cool parliamentary procedures. But the ultimate move--the one that's making Aaron Sorkin even more upset that he won't be writing The West Wing next season--is to halt a vote by...
Either way, there are not nearly enough police to make a difference, and some of the few in uniform aren't even the real thing. The Iraqi Red Crescent learned that lesson when thieves posing as traffic cops held up one of the organization's workers and made off with...
"Scripted," yes: the new schedules are heavy on old-fashioned sitcoms and dramas written by writers--but, then again, so were last fall's. "Quality"? The jury's still out: the networks show only clip reels to the press at upfronts, so it's as if the Cannes Film Festival...
His first surprise came when he found the force, still colloquially known as “Yard Cops,” carried a motley assortment of mostly useless side-arms, and that none of them had ever fired their weapon.
The ever-flowing Tsingtao beer was supposed to loosen our tongues. We had been detained while covering peasant riots in the coastal province of Zhejiang, where farmers are terrified that patients with severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, are being quarantined in their midst. Naturally, we didn't want to...