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...fourth quarter: Conor Murphy just obliterated McNally on the last incompletion. "Heavy pressure," says the press box announcer, garnering laughs from the writers...
...Khan was savagely bashed after he was arrested at a roadblock on Nov. 3. In the police station, "he was hit in the face without warning," says his partner Agnes Bulatiko. "Then the room filled with officers punching him. It was terrifying." At press time Khan was in hospital with a reported broken jaw and ribs; he had not been charged. Police said he had resisted arrest. Eleven men had appeared in court on charges of incitement to mutiny and conspiracy to murder. In a statement, Bainimarama said there were "disgruntled groups" in Fiji who "have the potential...
...into a waiting police car. "I have been given no reason to be arrested," she screamed, as the police slammed the door behind her. Asim Awan, a presenter for the local independent TV station Dawn News, observed that the police were allowing senior level politicians to give speeches and press conferences outside Bhutto's compound, but that lower-level workers were shut out or arrested. Said Awan: "The government knows [the workers] are the machine that keeps Bhutto's party going...
...journalists and security forces. Even when Bhutto managed to tear her way out of the house and address her public from the open sun-roof of a white land cruiser parked out front, a crowd of teenagers at a nearby empty lot continued to play cricket. The local-language press - generally cynical and conspiracy-minded - grumbled about the theatrics of the whole event, pointing out the lack of visible grass roots support for Bhutto in both Islamabad and Rawalpindi...
...readers of foreign-relations tea leaves, it's worth nothing that Bush - who tossed out his "Word War III" warning only three weeks ago - didn't mention military options when discussing Iran at a joint press conference with French president Nicolas Sarkozy on Wednesday. "The idea of Iran having a nuclear weapon is dangerous," he said. "Therefore, now is the time for us to work together to diplomatically solve this problem...