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...arrest brought the first spell of relief from the fear that had gripped Japan for two months. The nation had been holding its breath, worried that another horror would occur before police built their case against Aum. On May 5 a cleaning woman in Tokyo's sprawling Shinjuku station found a hydrogen-cyanide gas bomb before it went off. The device had been placed near a ventilation duct that would have spread the gas quickly. It was potent enough to have killed 10,000 people...
...judge today dismissed several key elements of asuit brought by the state against tobacco companies. West Virginia is suing the companies for the cost of treating Medicare patients with smoking-related illnesses, a tab that the state's Attorney General estimates at about $500 million a year. This could spell trouble for similar broad cases pending in Florida, Mississippi and Minnesota. While throwing out parts of the suit alleging fraud and other issues, Judge Irene Berger ruled that the suit could proceed on the basis ofconsumer protection laws...
...found the following spell in Madame Nack-wackyginger's Bibbity-Bobbity-Boo: The Best Spells and How to Cast Them (Random House, $14.95, hardcover...
Still, the trickiest question is, How will the G.O.P. pay for the tax cuts? They vowed to spell out their plans for financing the tax breaks, but two-thirds of the money raised by the bill would come from $177 billion in spending reductions yet to be specified...
...Remnant" incorporates a series of atonal compositions which further add to the work's subliminal spell. While one scene mixes chromatic pitches with blobs of piano notes, another combines the shriveled sound of a rewinding tape recorder with the cacophony of urban traffic. Bellowing horns mark the beginning of Ward's descent into the afterlife. Ward's grandfather drags him around the room suffocating him with a trumpet. Though Ward manages to blow, the sound is like that of a dying animal. For the most part, however, these atonal compositions lurk beneath the viewer's attention...