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...likely to be the weekend's No. 1 attraction. With the aid of film-biz hindsight, we can realize what Barry L. Levy, the film's writer, and its director, Pete Travis, figured out about the assassination genre: (1) that it can easily be fit into a standard action scenario and (2) that the plot can be split six or eight ways, into as many points of view. Each witness to the assassination provides important fragments of the information needed for the viewer to figure out whodunit and whether the perps will get away with their atrocity...
...lists. U.S. consulates are aiming to check all travelers applying for visas against Interpol lists, says Washington director Renkiewicz. While Davies says those new rules will "add to the risk of failure," Noble argues that it may be worth the occasional mistake if the payoff is averting his nightmare scenario of a passenger carrying a nuclear device or biological weapon onto a plane. If that were to happen, he says, "people will never forgive us." As a personal reminder of what's at stake, Noble has hung in his office two photographs of the Manhattan skyline that were taken before...
Gilbert simulated that scenario with potato chips. As in the other experiments, one group of students was asked to eat the chips and other foods, and another was asked to imagine doing so. Only this time, two more groups were asked to eat - or imagine eating - to the beat of a metronome. Those who ate at a normal pace - one chip for every 15 seconds - came to the same misguided conclusions as other students: predictions did not correspond to their actual levels of enjoyment. Yet those who ate chips more slowly, one every 45 seconds, had very different results. Their...
...That latter scenario is what Sheikh Usman Rishad, a 25-year-old blanket, pillow and mattress manufacturer, is hoping for. The former Musharraf supporter was up all last night decorating his 2006 Mitsubishi Lancer in honor of Sharif's election symbol, the tiger. He glued fuzzy cream blanket material over the midnight blue exterior, and painstakingly painted it with tiger stripes. The windows and bumpers are trimmed with black feather boas. "I decided to do this for my leader," he said of his masterpiece. "Sharif is going the right way for Pakistan." Musharraf, he says, brought Pakistan suicide bombers...
...commencement of the campaign, the sheer ferocity of the conflict by that point, in the words of Donna Brazile, may make a “dream ticket” nothing more than a “fantasy ticket.” It may be a fantasy, but the alternative scenario for Democrats is a nightmare...