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...that a mob hit has been ordered on a drug-addled Las Vegas magician/informer. Competing hit teams - bounty hunters, neo-Nazis, a pair of deadly lesbian ladies - turn up to compete for the million dollars on offer for completing the job. The FBI, of course, is attempting to protect the man they hope is going to be their star witness. Pretty soon everyone get to killing everyone else. You have quite possibly never seen so much unedifying mayhem in a relatively confined space, the smallest of which is a hotel elevator in which two guys pump uncounted bullets into...
...sectarian divide in the Islamic world, which could happen if it is seen as a Sunni cabal against the Shi'ites. But if the new Iraqi government (the only Shi'ite-led one besides Iran in the region) joined, the new alliance could show that it was willing to protect both moderate Shi'ites as well as Sunnis. The alliance would then be able to help take over from the U.S. some of the security responsibility in Iraq, and it could wean the Shi'ite leaders in Baghdad from their ties to Tehran...
...addition to a NATO-like antiterrorism alliance, a worldwide coalition of true and free democracies, ranging from India to Turkey to Israel. This Concert of Democracies could work on ways to nurture and support our common ideals, even as the new antiterrorism military alliance could be used to protect our security interests. Washington could use both instruments, just as it now uses both NATO and the U.N., depending on the situation...
...teachers, Teach for America recruits and a parent coordinator. "No one can work in isolation," he says. "My job is to get voices from the community and to keep the team motivated. I see our work like a chessboard. Each child is our king. We have to work to protect him and checkmate the forces of failure. This world is so harsh to children. I see myself as the keeper of the dream that is in every child, and I know we can succeed. That is my blessed hope...
...entrepreneurship and team management are two different things. Perot was hurting GM's stock by publicly bashing the company's management." Other observers were appalled at the buyout. GM officials got rid of Perot, contended Mary Anne Devanna, director of research at the Columbia Business School Management Institute, "to protect their own hides. Their careers, big bonuses and fancy perks all depend on maintaining the status quo. GM is in trouble, and sooner or later it will have to find a Ross Perot to dig itself out of its problems." Keith Grain, publisher of the weekly Automotive News, seemed disappointed...