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...province's governor and his deputy (they resigned without being charged with a specific crime). Soon after, three accidents in coal mines killed another 79 people, and a disco fire - once again blamed on lax regulation - killed an estimated 43 revelers in the southern city of Shenzhen. But citizens' furor over poisonous infant formula and the seemingly blatant failure of regulation in the milk industry overshadowed all those tragedies. One reason was its sheer scale: more than 50,000 children sickened, some 12,000 hospitalized and four dead...
...Over the course of the next three months, the jury will hear testimony from at least 70 witnesses, including Tube passengers and more than 40 police officers. The anonymity granted the police witnesses has fueled public furor: "INQUEST NOT COVER UP" read a black banner hanging from the windows of a nearby housing project. Among the witnesses will be the commander on the day of the operation and several of the surveillance officers tasked with trailing de Menezes. The two firearms specialists who gunned him down - codenamed Charlie 2 and Charlie 12 - will speak for the first time. Through...
...McCain camp - before its recent forays into the politics of umbrage and grievance - dismissed the ad furor as political correctness run amok. "Have a sense of humor," spokeswoman Nicole Wallace told me. For his part, Obama never accused McCain (or Biden, for that matter) of playing the race card. He wrote eloquently about race in his books, and he spoke eloquently about race during the Wright flap, but he's avoided the subject ever since the McCain campaign accused him of playing the race card, after he suggested that Republicans would try to remind voters that he doesn't look...
...which ended today, and Toronto, which began Thursday. One group of critics has seen The Wrestler, the other is waiting, tongues out like famished dogs, for tomorrow evening's North American premiere. The movie's producers have withheld U.S. rights until after the film shows here, anticipating a festival furor. On Saturday, the movie won the Golden Lion at the Venice International Film Festival - the event's top honor. Already, the two Hollywood trade papers have raved about the movie's star performance, and the Los Angeles Times headlines the question: "Will The Wrestler get hold of an Oscar...
Helen Mirren has won awards and a knighthood for her portrayal of strong, confident women in some of cinema and television's most memorable moments over the past couple decades. Now Mirren has provoked a different type of furor after airing her views on sex attackers...