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...bombers to within a few hundred meters of their targets, has had no less than six breathtakingly narrow escapes from arrest over three years on the run. He twice slipped out the back doors of houses minutes before police arrived, and he was once waved on by a policeman who had stopped to check motorcyclists leaving a bombing site; the officer failed to recognize Azahari. The string of narrow misses continued on Friday when police in East Java, across the Bali Strait, said they had likewise missed capturing Nurdin by a few hours. According to local press reports, police were...
...gleaming shine. But today Vladimir Lenin's tomb is a site of only passing interest, and the gleam from its walls reflects the lights of the shops across Red Square: Louis Vuitton, Kenzo, Chanel. "The only Muscovites who come here are showing a visitor around," says a policeman on duty near the tomb. "Always out-of-towners. You can tell from their clothes--like ours from about 15 years ago." The officer hasn't been inside to see Lenin's embalmed body since 1998. "I had just finished military service and came here with a friend. It was the thing...
...clamoring to see Lenin moved, even if he commands little of their attention. People tend to walk or jog past the mausoleum; a young couple photographs each other in front of it, beer cans in hand. The Dikii family, visiting from Tambov, Russia, stops to talk to the policeman at the tomb. "So is he going to be buried?," the father, Vladimir, asks. With a laugh, the policeman explains that a hydraulic lift lowers the corpse into the ground every night to keep it cool. The family is impressed. They are all for keeping Lenin where he is. "He turned...
...evidence" of non-compliance with existing rules despite the country's acknowledged long-term pattern of deception over aspects of its program. Still, the U.S. has had to accept that like the NPT itself, ElBaradei may be as good as it gets in terms of a universally accepted nuclear policeman. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was among the first to congratulate the new Nobel laureate by phone...
...This is mass chaos. To tell you the truth, I'd rather be in Iraq." SGT. JASON DEFESS, a National Guard military policeman and Iraq war veteran, stationed outside the Superdome in New Orleans...