Word: jailbreak
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...stalled peace talks with rebel Tamil Tigers. Pitched Battle HAITI At least three policemen were killed in street fighting as police special forces swept into Gonaives, Haiti 's fourth-largest city, in an effort to wrest control from rebels who seized it Thursday. An armed opposition group staged a jailbreak - in which at least 10 people died - as violent protests against President Jean-Bertrand Aristide continued. MEANWHILE IN THE U.K. ... As the Crow Doesn't Fly Animal behaviorists at Oxford University have discovered that homing pigeons' navigational techniques are a lot like humans'. Using satellite tracking devices, the scientists found...
...guards of his false incarceration. This was the fourth time in as many years that French prisoners have escaped by trading clothes with visitors. However, even more amazingly, this escape will not be held against Berasategui if he is ever recaptured because authorities do not consider it a jailbreak unless bribes or violence are involved...
...Thus was set up what was supposed to be the shocking twist at the end of it all. Face it - we're all sick of Keith and his bumbling and his puppy-dog tears, and once Colby won the old-style Aussie-jailbreak Immunity Challenge by not dropping his lock in the grass, we had to hope it was him. (Rodger, interestingly enough for a 12-year bank president, retained absolutely none of the facts Probst dealt out in the challenge's setup, and basically stumbled around in the night scratching his beard and looking, well, looking like he really...
...know. Laughter is one of the mysteries - an out-of-body experience, an exuberant jailbreak of the self: a detonation. In that, laughter resembles sex. Or do I mean sneezing? Anyway, there's an outburst, a blast of something that aspires to ecstasy. But unlike sex, laughter (unless it is bitter, derisive laughter, the weapon of scorn) has a gregarious quality: shared, social. Why not? Comedy originated with phallic pageants in ancient Greece, in which men would caper around wearing immense penises. Lots of laughs...
...that Survivor is over, what will we watch? The networks are doing their best to translate other foreign "reality" shows to American tastes: ABC has picked up Britain's Jailbreak (10 "prisoners" under 24-hr. surveillance try to escape for big money), and NBC has locked up Holland's Chains of Love (one person chained to a quartet of the opposite sex). But we found some gems they may have overlooked...