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...will be his martial law, if he proceeds, not the Americans'. Of course, it'll be kids from Watts and Wichita and elsewhere in the States who will be doing the enforcing. But the move may help to throw Iraqi terrorists off balance who might have been planning a spectacular attack for June 30th. Of course, administration officials are putting their best spin on it, saying "it shows this government is ready... . What this demonstrates is that they were fully ready to take control." Maybe. But it seems to more accurately reflect the deteriorating security situation...
...sound absurdly bombastic, the movie is visually breathtaking. Director Kazuaki Kiriya brings to life a sooty, machine-age hell that's all grinding gears, clanking metal and monolithic buildings swathed in Cyrillic characters. The fact that the movie was made for only $6 million is a sign, too, that spectacular special effects are now available even to filmmakers without Hollywood-style budgets...
...CHICAGO Located on the 95th floor of the John Hancock Building, the women's toilets at the Signature Room restaurant offer a spectacular panorama of downtown Chicago through floor-to-ceiling windows. Meanwhile, at the city's Voyeur nightclub, women using the bathroom can operate a closed-circuit surveillance system that shows pictures of the dance floor outside?perfect for tracking a cheating date or possible catch...
...agency that has become self-protective and bureaucratic; it is too reliant on gadgets rather than spies to steal secrets. Sometimes the CIA has simply been too blind to see what is hiding in plain sight. Tenet restored the agency's morale, but he leaves behind a string of spectacular intelligence failures...
...good time for his re-election campaign, the GNP was growing a robust 6.8%, while inflation had dropped to 4.3%. And from then on, despite the spectacular but brief stock-market crash in 1987, the boom kept right on booming. Those gains, however, were unequally distributed. Reagan liked to say that the government provided a "safety net" for the "truly needy," but it was during these years that, for the first time since the Depression, there appeared those huddled figures who became known as "the homeless...