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...there are odds to consider in the other direction. This thing is supposed to work on maybe two of some 30 known strains of anthrax, and even then only semi-reliably on so-called "aerosolized" anthrax, meaning the kind you inhale if Saddam or Kim Jong-Il does his thing. And don't think the bad guys don't have some idea of which strains we're protected against and which would tear our lungs out from the inside. The way I figure it, the odds of a weekend warrior like me getting gassed during my stay...
...sell and they shove it down Academy members' throats repeatedly until it becomes a surefire nominee. In past years, it hasn't been especially controversial or noticeable since Miramax usually has one of the best films of the year-The Crying Game, The English Patient, Good Will Hunting, Il Postino and Shakespeare in Love. This year, however, their slate was freakin' weak. But quality doesn't stop the Weinsteins. (A friend chimes in. "I waited on Harvey once in a restaurant...
...shell. Senior State Department officials are surprised by how North Korea has begun to reach out to other countries over the past few months. Pyongyang recently established formal diplomatic ties with Italy, Brunei and the Philippines, and is discussing normalized relations with Japan and Australia. "Dear Leader" KIM JONG IL, who celebrated his 58th birthday last week by opening a consulate in Hong Kong, is even warming to the old enemy--he held a personal meeting last October with Hyundai executives from South Korea. According to U.S. diplomats, Kim finally realized that with his cold war benefactors gone...
...shell. Senior State Department officials are surprised by how North Korea has begun to reach out to other countries over the past few months. Pyongyang recently established formal diplomatic ties with Italy, Brunei and the Philippines, and is discussing normalized relations with Japan and Australia. "Dear Leader" Kim Jong Il, who celebrated his 58th birthday last week by opening a consulate in Hong Kong, is even warming to the old enemy - he held a personal meeting last October with Hyundai executives from South Korea...
...there has been no voluntary papal abdication since Celestine V in 1294. And while Celestine was later canonized, Dante placed him in the Inferno for il gran rifiuto (the great refusal), albeit only in the first circle of Hell: Limbo. Other pontiffs have been removed by murder, martyrdom, military intervention or rare coups by the College of Cardinals during pagan rule, the confusion of the Dark Ages, Byzantine meddling, populist revolutions or chronic political impotence. But what would happen if one of the most significant successors of St. Peter in the past 100 years were to give up his throne...