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...House spokesman tell "key press" that Libby was as innocent of the charge of leaking classified information as Karl Rove (whose innocence the White House had attested to on record). Cheney wrote, "Not going to protect one staffer [Rove] and sacrifice the guy that was asked to stick his neck in the meat grinder [Libby...
...Zhao, his fellow miners called him -- a weary-looking man, 54, wearing a yellow safety helmet and a miner's lamp strung around his neck, black coal dust embedded in the lines on his forehead and lightly powdering the insides of his ears. Last May Zhao and a team of other veterans were assigned to search for the bodies of 57 miners killed in Zuoyun County, deep in China's Shanxi province. The dead men had accidentally tunneled into a flooded mine shaft next to their own. "Many of them are very young--just boys," Zhao says, pausing to light...
...background. Their own horror is not melodramatic, but written in the confusion and shock across their faces. The killing scenes are arranged similarly to those in “Jaws”: random characters are introduced, impending doom is certain, and goosebumps shoot down the back of your neck and arms. Instead of a cello increasing in bow strokes to mark the striking moment though, Fincher’s strategy is to calm viewers with humor and the character’s own confusion, before shocking them with a gruesome death. Gyllenhaal has wonderful on-screen chemistry with co-stars...
...that any car designer would call aerodynamic. Here's a phallic skyscraper, never built, that bends like a cattail in the wind. And here's the most implacably futuristic model of the bunch, a proposal for a prefabricated house that would rise out of the ground on a long neck, continue for a distance underground and send up a kind of tail at its rear. If it calls to mind all kinds of things, and it does, one of them is a brontosaurus from outer space. But how often do you see a house that reminds you in a single...
...fire, ignited by a candle, swept through an off-campus apartment building early Saturday morning. A third student remains in critical condition.After battling the blaze, firefighters found two people in apartment 621, later identified to be BU undergraduates Rhiannon L. McCuish of Mashpee, Mass., and Stephen Adelipour of Great Neck, N.Y., dead at the scene. Both were 21.Adelipour resided in the apartment, and McCuish was visiting. Steven B. Boursiquot, 22, of Dix Hills, N.Y., was found in the apartment alive and transported to Mass. General Hospital, where he remains in critical condition, according to Steve MacDonald, a spokesman...