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Ironically, Angels managed to stay off the culture warriors' radar, even though, unlike The Reagans, it had been publicly performed and published. It is unabashedly progressive (the kind of progressive that considers even "liberal" an insult), it takes sides, and it names names. Reagan comes in for frequent insults, and when Kushner has a corrupt, disease-ravaged Cohn say, "If you want to look at the heart of modern conservatism, you look at me," he is not trying to be fair and balanced. Kushner called the stage version of Angels "a gay fantasia on national themes...
...destroyed hundreds. The mother of such crusades is the Tuf-tuf Club. Harald Kolijn, 33, from Helmond in the southern Netherlands, started it as a joke in 2000 with a friend. It's since mushroomed into a Europe-wide army claiming 20,000 motorists who share tips on radar-detection devices and speed traps. Kolijn argues that the devices penalize speed instead of bad driving, but adds, "We don't condone vandalism." Yet the cameras work, slowing average speeds and cutting accidents. Leendert de Lange, of the Dutch national prosecutor's office, credits cameras with helping bring road fatalities...
...general go-ahead to Islamist cells worldwide: Attack whenever and wherever you can. Sometimes the mother ship may provide financial and logistical support, but the dirty work seems to be handled by local, autonomous units that are intimately familiar with their areas and can plan and attack below the radar of local security forces. The pattern, says Rand Corporation terrorism expert Bruce Hoffman, "is to send a handful of professional terrorists to make contact with existing local terrorist groups, who provide the cannon fodder--that is, the suicide bombers...
...China hardened microprocessors, which have military applications. Gao admitted to using a number of front companies and an assumed name ("Gail Heights") to buy 80 chips from a Massachusetts supplier, which she then sold to the Nanjing Research Institute of Electronics Technology, one of the top designers of radar systems for China's military. Under her plea agreement, Gao agreed to forfeit $505,000 she earned in the sales and was convicted of tax evasion. She could be sentenced to 10 years in jail...
...Edwards stood there, bashfully smiling while attempting to fly under the radar, there could be no doubt that he had done just that, with more than a little help from his friend...