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...sunny Friday morning two summers ago, Daniel Vasella got quite a wake-up call. Outside his lakefront home near Zug, Switzerland, gigantic speakers blasted Wagner's Gotterdammerung loud enough to rattle the windows. From across the lake, several boats carrying protesters converged on his house. A helicopter delivered a barrel marked with a skull and crossbones to one of the boats. Baffled, Vasella watched as the barrel was ferried to shore and plunked on his lawn...
...racing world it's called drafting - staying right behind the leader until she wears out and then vaulting past her right near the end. In the 2008 race for the Democratic presidential nomination, Hillary Clinton has two racers on her heels, and so far they have been working fairly well together. But as Clinton has begun to show signs of flagging, Barack Obama and John Edwards are now facing a difficult choice: continue to focus their attacks on the front-runner or go after each another to become what might be called the un-Hillary...
...part in the fight. Of course no one should die in such circumstances, and the judicial process should determine the full extent of police culpability. But the outrage should run both deeper, and wider. It should begin with the fact that the kind of violence that erupted in and near stadiums after news of Sandri's death emerged has become as much of a consistent ritual in Italy as a morning espresso. While the country's sports "intelligentsia" debated whether all games should have been suspended on Sunday, no one doubted that mayhem would break loose...
...Though it often takes loss of life to catch our attention, these scenes of violence have been occurring on a near weekly basis at stadiums from Turin to Taranto - for years I got to know this Italian version of the hooligan (dubbed Ultra) while covering the Serie A league for the Associated Press seven years ago. Even when it didn't make the headlines, virtually every week we would file an "Italian Violence Roundup" alongside the coverage of the games. There were also spot stories to file on racist chants and anti-Semitic banners in stadiums. An in-depth report...
...mystery. How did so many guerrillas manage to infiltrate a heavily guarded area? Why did it take so long to get reinforcements to the scene? How did the guerrillas and hostages leave? In their testimony, the men - all of whom were in different positions in a mountainous region near the Iraqi border - said they found themselves under fire and surrounded by PKK fighters; several said their guns jammed. According to news reports, they surrendered individually when they ran out of ammunition...