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...Chinese silk dress has a skirt so wide she must have had to go through doors sideways. She wasn't so lucky with some bed hangings she tried to smuggle in. "It was illegal to import Chinese silk," says chief curator Christopher Wilk, "because Great Britain was trying to protect the U.K. textile industry." The fabric was impounded, which left poor Mrs. Garrick "weeping like Rachel for her children," as her husband wrote to a friend. She hung the recovered material around a bed designed by Thomas Chippendale. Bed and letter are both on display...
...blast, the reduced effectiveness of the device at ground level will be of little comfort, and Sept. 11 will seem like an unheeded warning. We must do whatever is necessary to prevent the proliferation of nuclear weapons, materials and expertise. We should not delay in implementing policies that will protect our great cities from this disaster. STEVEN PAYNE Westville...
...which he'd hoped to benefit but which was instead dominated by anti-immigrant sentiment. The Liberal Party, led by Anders Fogh Rasmussen, won more seats than the outgoing Social Democrats for the first time since 1920, after Denmark's 4 million voters rallied behind allied parties seeking to protect the country's generous welfare system. KOSOVO Elections, at Last Ethnic Albanians turned out in high numbers to vote for the province's first democratically elected assembly, though turnout among minority Serbs was relatively low. Ibrahim Rugova, whose Democratic League of Kosovo took more than 46% of the vote, called...
...vanquishing of evil-doers, there is no record of violent attempts on provincial movie theatres. Hotels in midtown Manhattan and shabby train station waiting areas have also come this far unscathed. The sorts of “security measures” implemented by these businesses are not designed to protect public security; instead, their sole intention is to protect the highly vulnerable security of businesses’ pocketbooks...
...gained? The Northern Alliance fighters know the terrain and the language, and U.S. forces haven?t trained with them, aren?t used to communicating with them on the battlefield. The Marines will probably end up doing what it makes sense for them to do - provide technical support, protect the airfield, maybe cut off an escape route if it?s needed. But going door-to-door in Kandahar when the Taliban says it?ll fight to the death...