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...home. Certainly those folks with a history of heart disease or heart attack are good candidates. And then there are people like Lee Curtes, 57, a businessman from Hartford, Wis., who had no idea there was anything wrong with his heart until he collapsed on a ski slope three years ago. An AED operated by the ski patrol helped save his life. Since then, Curtes has kept one in his car, hoping someday to help another heart in need...
...Quiet American's central trio--an English reporter (Michael Caine), his Vietnamese mistress (Do Thi Hai Yen) and the young U.S. official (Brendan Fraser) who comes between them--represents the Europeans, Vietnamese and Americans who danced on a slippery geopolitical slope that led straight into the Big Muddy. But they are mainly three points on a triangle of love, lust and rancor in a land where emotion, no less than pan-national idealism, revs the heart rate and clouds the vision. Steal a man's woman or connive in a faraway nation's destiny at your peril. Bedfellows make strange...
...thought it would be easy and straightforward,” says Harvard Director of Physical Planning Harris Band. “But we discovered through our conversations that the community had concerns about predictability. They didn’t want this to be precedent that would establish a slippery slope in terms of how we use the land...
...story's center?Pyle (Brendan Fraser), the older English reporter Thomas Fowler (Caine) and local lovely Phuong (Do Thi Hai Yen), whom the two men covet, conquer and betray?can be seen as representing the Americans, Europeans and Vietnamese of the early '50s, dancing on a slippery geopolitical slope that leads straight into the Big Muddy. They are also familiar figures in the Greene canon. The Quiet American is very nearly Greene's remake of The Third Man, his 1949 tale of political and sexual intrigue set in postwar Vienna, with the same cast of characters: a world-weary Englishman...
...ignored by the Wilmington, Del., police who are detaining innocent people on the street in high-crime areas and taking their pictures to file in a database [LAW, Sept. 23]. While police have the right to take photographs in a public place, they are on a slippery slope when it comes to searching and detention. It seems that being African American makes one a police target. And if the only cause for a search is being black, doesn't that mean any contraband found would be viewed as the fruits of an illegal search and thus not be admitted...