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...emerged from the Turkish ambassador's residence in Kuala Lumpur on June 30, a day after he sought sanctuary there following accusations that he sodomized a 23-year-old male aide. Anwar vehemently denied the allegations, which he denounced as political smear tactics fabricated by a coalition government in danger of losing power for the first time since Malaysia gained independence, in 1957. The charges, which have sidetracked Anwar's plans to re-enter Parliament, echo those preceding his 1998 imprisonment for sodomy. That conviction--overturned in 2004--came after his falling-out with then Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad over...
...goes that way," says Rondon. "One day the santos malandros help a desperate mother keep her child off drugs; the next day they help you score some cocaine. It's the duality of life, but that's the way real life functions." And there's always the danger, acknowledged by believers, that the malandro spirit can turn against someone seeking help...
...camera with the thoroughly un-menacing look of a man who has gotten himself in way over his head. Consequently, when Israel’s lawyers confidently asserted at a bail hearing that “there is no question that Sam is neither a flight risk nor a danger to the community,” they had every reason to believe they were telling the truth...
Down the corridor on a top floor of an office skyscraper, a tough-looking man strides, radiating corporate menace. Inside his swank office, he detects danger from outside, and in a moment his colleague has been shot. Running toward the office window, he leaps out, head first, his face a mesh mosaic of broken plastic, as if it were a crushed stained-glass mask. He lands on the adjacent building the shots came from, using his own artillery to dispatch several of his would-be killers, including one with a bullet that can turn corners. Alone and triumphant, he hears...
...survive a disaster" was wrong about fire-drill requirements in New York City [June 9]. The idea that the Real Estate Board of New York (REBNY) opposes such drills is also false. REBNY has consistently supported mandatory, semiannual fire drills as well as evacuation drills. Owing to the danger involved in traveling down many flights of stairs and after learning of two resulting heart attacks, the industry, working with the fire department, agreed that drills shouldn't require walking all the way to the street. Instead, they would require building occupants to travel down three or four flights...