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...American residents of East St. Louis, Ill., fed up with an electoral process that isn't working for them, seceded from the union and declared their city a sovereign state. Fred Fredericks, the mayor turned President of the newly named Blackland, must balance the country's utopian initiatives (adopting hitherto suppressed alternative-fuel technologies) with the difficulties of life in a rogue nation (where federal checks no longer come in). The satire is omnivorous, poking fun at the Bush Administration and Louis Farrakhan...
...point of impact, monstrous kinetic energy is converted almost instantly into heat, turning the meteorite into a spray of molten metal, pulverizing the ground beneath, fusing sandstone into glass. A crater nearly a kilometer in diameter and 150m deep, its sides molded from softened rock, cools in the flat, hitherto featureless, landscape...
...line. Ingush and Chechens suspected of rebel sympathies started to disappear. The lightning strikes were the response. Until now, the assumption was that the insurgents were Chechens. Aliyev and other locals, though, assert that many were local Ingush. Says former Russian Parliament Speaker Ruslan Khasbulatov: "The war in Ingushetia, hitherto hidden from the public eye, has finally surfaced...
...ball, sexagenarian mechanic Ralph Williams (Michael Caton) professes his love for local projectionist Vince Hopgood (Paul Hogan). Whether it's more than platonic he refuses to tell. Judge us as people first, he says. To the other townsfolk of Yackandandah, he and Vince have been sending out mixed messages. Hitherto heterosexual, a widower and divorc? respectively, they've shacked up together and been spied draping their lounge room in rainbow flags and befriending the local hairdresser, with whom they perform a passable Peter Allen?inspired dance routine. Most of this has been for the benefit of a visiting tax inspector...
...French love their trains, but these days they're boarding them warily. Last week their government confirmed that its security forces have for the past three months played a cat-and-mouse game with a group that calls itself AZF. The hitherto unknown group has threatened to bomb France's railroads unless the government forks over a hefty ransom...