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...describe drug traffickers without a record, morphed in the late 1990s to characterize potential terrorists who weren't on any watch lists. But several have already proved their deadly capabilities: the British government classified the four July 2005 London train bombers as clean-skins. Richard Reid, the would-be shoe bomber, was a clean-skin as well. Following the London transit attacks, Britain began to crack down on the threat by doubling its élite police antiterrorist squad and stepping up efforts to recruit spies within Muslim communities...
...It’s just like buying a shoe,” Hyslop said of implementing security measures, “you can get the right size but there are so many different styles...
...Most of the children who grow up in Tam Binh orphanage go straight into the workforce after leaving school, a fact of life the orphanage recognizes. Tam Binh has 10 sewing machines to train teenagers in job skills (garment and shoe factories abound in Vietnam and garments are the country's second-largest-earning export behind crude oil). "Some of them go to work in factories. But some of them have even become teachers." And then Trung says, "Those who are not as clever, they can be street vendors - it's like all others in a society...
...played a character, the Tramp, constantly beset by social affront. But his natural wit and class allowed him to rise above the indignity. In The Gold Rush, hunger forces him to eat his own shoe, which he consumes as if he were the most fastidious gourmet...
...began his movie career as The Jerk, needing to be taught the difference between shoe polish and poo, has been stepping in it ever since--from a half-woman in All of Me to the inept Inspector Clouseau in last year's The Pink Panther...