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...They are not always successful. In 2002, Buck had a narrow escape. He had helped moved "a lot of people" of people out of China and into South Korea by then, his daughter says, and his organization had been infiltrated by an informant. Chinese authorities raided one of Buck' s safe houses and arrested a group of refugees en route to South Korea. Buck' s apartment in Yanji, in northeastern China, was searched, but he was out of the country at the time and escaped capture. His family pleaded with him not to return -- to no avail...
...spend liberal, says Sherry Bebitch Jeffe, political analyst and senior scholar at USC, who was at the back of the room listening to his remarks. Additionally, she said, "Angelides now seems to have a message and a focus that could force the Governor to narrow his message in a way that disturbs his carefully constructed coalition [of disparate independents and mainstream GOP voters]. If that happens, this could be a real race...
...trick is to find that narrow space between vigilance and paranoia. After the Bojinka plot was uncovered in 1995, aviation officials banned carry-on aerosols and most liquids and gels heavier than an ounce on U.S. planes leaving Manila. Eventually, the ban faded away. And people kept flying...
...Even given its narrow frame of interest, World Trade Center skews the story for easy uplift. For example, there was another Port Authority officer, Dominick Pezzulo (played by Jay Hernandez), who was trapped with McLoughlin and Jimeno. He managed to free himself from the rubble, working heroically to pry Jimeno loose before he was crushed and killed. Did Pezzulo have a photogenic wife and kids? Might the detailing of their immediate anxiety and lasting grief not have been as illuminating as showing the ultimate triumph of John and Will's families? Why must this movie about 9/11 be only about...
...James Alexander ’10 wrote in an e-mail. Alexander added that first years also conducted searches on Facebook.com once they knew their telephone numbers in hopes of finding a rising sophomore who still had their freshman phone number posted. Others, he said, were able to narrow down their options when they looked at their Faculty of Arts and Sciences’s Registrar Student Record online and found out what freshman Yard—Crimson, Ivy, or Elm—they would inhabit this fall. Last summer, over 100 first years also found out their room assignments...