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However, wearing “I crow for the Carlson Petition” stickers on their lapels, they ran into opposition from the local carpenters’ union...
Several residents were in attendance at the Sullivan Chamber last night, sporting “I Crow for the Carlson Petition” stickers, and though not officially speaking, made their presence felt...
...President Bush warned a year ago that the UN that it would make itself irrelevant if it failed to support military action against Iraq; going back to the international body for help means eating crow. But besides the need for military assistance, an even more pressing impetus for compromise with international allies may be the financial burden of managing postwar Iraq. It can't have pleased the Bush administration that in a week when the Washington was scolded by the IMF for projecting for next year a record deficit of $480 billion, Ambassador Bremer told the Washington Post that Iraq...
...galleon heads into Port Royal, and atop it stands the proudly scurvy Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp). As it glides shoreward, the ship is taking on water and has nearly sunk by the time it reaches land--allowing Jack to step lithely, blithely and with Astaire timing from the crow's nest onto the Port Royal dock. This little scene, reminiscent of a visual gag in a Buster Keaton silent comedy, comes at the start of Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, cuing audiences to the suspense, grace and fun of the next two hours...
...airwaves once more. As citizens gathered in the steamy heat of their shacks, they heard then police chief and future President Fidel Ramos boast on the radio that the military had abandoned Marcos to join the people's cause. An exaggeration, to be sure. But the crow of victory prompted thousands to flood the streets and give the people-power revolution the critical mass it needed to succeed. So, too, in Thailand six years later did radio stations help mobilize hundreds of thousands of demonstrators, who forced the resignation of a military commander who had seized control of the country...