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...civilian translator said he watched the soldiers stop women between the age of 15 and 25 on the sidewalks, and then handcuff their "husbands or fathers, boyfriends or brothers" who came to the women's aid. Then they would slap the cuffed men and punch them in their groins. "Some of the men were flexi-cuffed [plastic handcuffs] while they were being hit multiple times by various members of the squad, and they were not able to fight back or defend themselves," the interpreter said. "They would also grab people who were watching what was going on, handcuff them...
...were laced with irony worthy of a movie by Steven Spielberg and Ron Howard--who, as it happens, were co-founders of the ill-fated website. Every Friday afternoon for the past few months, Pop's 85 employees had gathered in their Glendale, Calif., warehouse to sip beers and slap backs for the films they already had in the can: shorts starring Rene Russo, Steve Martin, Claudia Schiffer. Last Friday, just two weeks before the planned launch, they were chugging beers to drown their sorrows and being eyed by security guards to make sure they didn't steal the computers...
...most daring moves sometimes end up on the cutting-room floor. In Aguilera's video Come On Over (All I Want Is You), Landon created a part in which male dancers push female dancers' heads down to waist level before the women playfully slap their hands away. It was a little risque for teen pop. "Britney and Christina are both at the age where they don't want to be little girls anymore," says Landon, who has worked with both. "But their audience is still made up of little girls. So sometimes you have to cut back...
...Well, a full-on transformation from "Earth in the Balance" to "Band on the Run" was maybe a little much to wish for: After the credits rolled, there was our old Al, lurching up the aisle, reaching out to slap hands while oddly keeping his trunk almost entirely still. And yet there was a moment: hitting the podium, he and Tipper lip-locked in the most passionate kiss I've seen in American politics, a faces-moving kiss, a full-body-contact kiss, a Parental Advisory Label, get-a-room kiss that may well have involved tongue. Coming from...
...incompetently, in part because the administration's political goals kept shifting and in part because it was not, at the start, committed to the decisive use of military force," writes Rice. "That President Clinton was surprised at Milosevic's tenacity is, well, surprising," she adds, in a thinly veiled slap-down of Albright's strategic abilities. "Also, there must be a political game plan that will permit the withdrawal of our forces - something that is still completely absent in Kosovo...