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...blind woman named Lavinia had even made sure she was wearing a neatly pressed blouse, blue skirt and white dress shoes for her evacuation. "I'm fine, just fine," she said as the helicopter lifted off and a crew member slipped a helmet over her head. The evacuees with sight shook their heads in stunned disbelief as they saw their sunken city from the windows. It was a possible explanation why Lavinia was so composed: she had the advantage of not having to view the tragedy all around...
...poverty, desperation and chaos." The Condi (and Bush) doctrine attempts to restore Iraq by forcing democracy down Iraqis' throats, using coercion and military occupation. Notwithstanding Rice's and the Administration's claim that the insurgency is coming under control, the body count keeps rising daily, with no end in sight for the quagmire in Iraq. Ralph Kress La Mesa, California, U.S. Your article said Rice's becoming the "running mate for the Republican presidential nominee in 2008 ... will depend largely on whether she can find a way for the U.S. to declare victory in Iraq before support for the Bush...
...offender in Mason City, Iowa, who lives within sight of a day-care center and asked not to be named in this story, told TIME he plans to move to Nebraska or South Dakota to escape Iowa's pending residency restrictions. Convicted at 19 for having nonforcible sexual relations with a 14-year-old, he served two years in prison before his release in June 2004. "What really bothers me is that years from now, I'll still have to worry about something I did at age 19," says the offender, who is now 23. "This is like using...
...your worries to rest. Tsui Hark hasn't lost sight of the most important objective of any Hong Kong filmmaker: pleasing the audience. In his new movie, Seven Swords, he has dipped into the endless supply of old Chinese wuxia (martial arts) novels to come up with a gritty and extremely violent epic. Noble warriors literally descend from the mountaintop to protect an endangered village from an implacable evil?think Kurosawa's Seven Samurai in Qing-dynasty China. While the attempts at romantic subplots fizzle and the film is paced so strangely that it feels both too long...
...giant field where they've camped out through the damp and chilly night. The image of Benedict XVI in his popemobile appears on the giant video screens. He is somewhere here, in this gathering of Woodstock scope called World Youth Day, 15 miles outside of Cologne. Some cheer the sight on the screen, others clasp their hands in prayer. There are also plenty who seem to simply gravitate toward the physical presence of their Holy Father-some running in the direction of the faraway stage, others walking in a head-up, open-mouth trance. Whether he likes...