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Everyone now has his nail-clipper, tweezers or X-rayed-shoe story. Can-you-top-this tales of luggage and body searches have become a staple of cocktail chatter. Yet citizens would willingly subject themselves to delay, inconvenience and even indignity if they felt what they were undergoing was actually improving airport security. Since Sept. 11, subjecting oneself to security indignities has been a civic duty. But this has become a parody of civic duty. Random searches are being done purely to defend against the charge of racial profiling...
...could be the economy, it could be my origin, but Sept. 11 was really the last nail in the coffin,” he said...
...Diet, one by one, which means that most of these roads to nowhere will be quid pro quo'd into existence. "This is his most critical moment," says political analyst Minoru Morita. "He has to compromise with his opponents in order to survive." But every compromise amounts to a nail in the coffin of his once-ambitious reform program...
...days later by aerialist Alisa Camplin, 27. Though she had dreamed of being an Olympian since she was five, Camplin didn't show up at the Opening Ceremonies, didn't go to the athletes' village and didn't trade pins. All she did was train - and then nail two difficult jumps. The Australian government has shown how seriously it takes the pair's historic victories by issuing two commemorative postage stamps. "It's only a small picture, so it can't look that bad," said Bradbury. "People will be licking the back of my head," giggled Camplin, not sounding very...
Americans who watched the pairs figure-skating finals last Monday learned the outcome of another NBC nail biter during a commercial break: Friends would be back for a ninth season. The matter was resolved after a brief negotiation, in sharp contrast to the acrimony and waffling of two years ago. The promo announcing the show's return aired only hours after the new contracts had been signed, an indication of how much the network relies on the show to carry its prime time. But it is really the FRIENDS who should take a victory lap. Each cast member will earn...