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...explosion, according to secretly taped conversations between informant Emad Salem and his FBI handlers. In the most startling passage, leaked to the press last week, an agent seemingly accepts Salem's claim that the bombing could have been averted through his undercover work, including a proposed ploy to substitute inert powder for explosives...
...after President Clinton publicly urged it to do so, Germany's Bundesbank cut key interest rates. That could help stimulate the inert German economy...
...flood does not discriminate. Among its detritus are picnic tables and automobiles, tree stumps and deer. At least two children. Even the barges that usually command the waterway as they move the river basin's produce to the rest of the world have been rendered helpless. They are inert and tethered to a vanished shore. The high waters have made the river unnavigable; there is no longer enough clearance for large ships to pass under the Mississippi's bridges...
...ranging widely in age and size. It scored a palpable hit on the G-spot of the Italian press, partly because its author, Oliviero Toscani, does the advertising photos for Benetton. Despite Toscani's stance as a fearless realist, this Don Giovanni's catalog in Cibachrome is aesthetically inert, and after five minutes about as shocking as a mural of human elbows might be. Nevertheless, it wins (hairs-down, as it were) over Gianfranco Gorgoni's similar photomural in the Italian pavilion, which shows only women's genitals...
...text is sometimes magisterially suited to the operatic background music. But it is often cumbersome. (Sample: "From that day onward, they set about plotting to do away with him. On his part, Jesus refrained from coming and going freely among the people.") When Jesus preaches, the audience hears an inert medley of greatest hits -- aphorisms strung together without logic or sequence...