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...Jackass team is pumped. For them, this is like Brando nailing a scene. When Knoxville comes to, they walk him outside the swap meet and prop him up against a wall. "I'm Johnny Knoxville. Come see the movie, and you'll see why I have to get stitches," he says clearly, in what turns out to be his last completely lucid moment of the day. That's when Cindy Mendoza, 15, spots him. "Dude, it's Jackass. Dude, I watch your show every night at 10. How come you didn't bring Steve-O? Dude...
...oilmen. These upstart countries join such established giants as Nigeria, which plans to increase its output from its current 1.9 million barrels per day to more than 3 million; Angola, which wants to double its almost 1 million daily output; and Gabon, which is encouraging more deepwater exploration to prop up declining production. All the action makes the waters off West Africa one of the hottest places for oil exploration in the world. On a global scale, the numbers may seem modest; total proven reserves in the Gulf of Guinea sit at 40 billion barrels, less than one-sixth...
...market is set up between alleys surrounding decrepit apartment buildings. Elderly Vietnamese women sit frying pancakes while others skin fresh fish. Cuts of meat hang in front of tailors mending pants and enormous bags of rice prop up the occasional war victim without legs. It was here, in 1969, where my mom was sewing and selling dresses with one of her sisters. Amidst cackling chickens and radio reports about the war, my father stumbled into the market. Ma must have been beautiful to attract his attention. After all, he came looking for a wedding dress for his fianc?...
...finance laws kick in. Democrats have raised one-third less than the G.O.P. and are madly shuffling funds from state to state, depending on who is viewed as "the most vulnerable Democrat of the week," in the words of one strategist. Party officials concede that the need to help prop up Torricelli prevented them from funneling money to Oregon, where, with enough help, challenger Bill Bradbury might stand a chance against incumbent Republican Gordon Smith. Now it may betoo late. "The fact that we're talking about the real possibility of picking up seats in the House, and of taking...
...regimes is justified because they support the larger U.S. interests of fighting communism or terrorism. Krauthammer failed to mention that several of the dictatorships the U.S. has assisted were created by the U.S., often by destroying an existing democracy. Could Krauthammer's real point be that the U.S. should prop up dictators when democracy results in a government the U.S. dislikes? JEFFREY FRANK Arlington Heights...