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...international competition. Top filmmakers from around the world -- from Argentina to Yugoslavia -- offer their work. World-class directors like Ridley Scott and Spike Lee capture the moment. Performers from Madonna to Mickey Rourke play to collective fantasies. But this time there is one crucial difference: most of the movies flash by in 15 to 90 seconds...
...reporter who covers crime knows that when the flash-bang goes off at the front door, the SWAT team is storming the back door," says correspondent Elaine Shannon. And so, when Pablo Escobar Gaviria, the ferocious leader of the Medellin drug cartel, surrendered to authorities in Colombia last week, Shannon knew that the real story lay elsewhere. "Escobar is a terrific sound- and-light show," she says. "But people of such towering stupidity always flame out." In her eyes, the group to watch is the Cali cartel. And, as deftly laid out by her in one of this week...
Even when the aged system is working, it has a blind spot for what meteorologists call "mesoscale" events, measured in minutes and tens of miles: tornadoes, flash floods, squall lines and thunderstorms. Some Weather Service offices do not issue a tornado warning until a human actually sights a twister -- by which time it is often too late to get out of harm's way. False alarms of flash floods have become so common that they are usually ignored...
...April a new flash point arose between Robb and Wilder. As NBC prepared a flimsy documentary on Robb's private behavior, including an alleged dalliance with a former Miss Virginia beauty queen, the Robb camp accused Wilder's crew of complicity in the muckraking. The apparent strategy was to paint the expose as resulting from a political vendetta. According to two sources familiar with the episode, two Robb associates -- his press secretary, Steven Johnson, and the political director of Robb's Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Robert Watson -- briefed a Washington Post reporter on the tape's contents about two months...
...only that, you'll have the cleanest credit record in town. "How's his payment history?" one computer may ask another. "He pays early!" the other may flash back. "Aw, c'mon," the first computer will say. "No, really! Here -- look!" Whereupon the first computer will look over the second computer's shoulder and sniff its perfume, and airline reservations clerks around the country will frown and say, "Sorry, my system just went down." All because...