Word: straws
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Forbes' real contribution to this year's campaign has been to show that lucrative spending cannot develop a constituency. In the Iowa straw poll last August--although no delegates were at stake--Forbes spent $160 per vote. He ranks close to Ross Perot and Michael Huffington among wealthy men willing to spare no expense for their political ambitions...
...past month, the Chilean air force has had a plane waiting at a British airfield to take General Augusto Pinochet home; right now, the former dictator might as well unpack his bags. Britain's High Court Tuesday overruled Home Secretary Jack Straw's decision to keep Pinochet's medical records secret from countries seeking his extradition, compelling Britain to make them available - in confidence - to Spain, Belgium, Switzerland and France. The results of a series of medical tests ordered by the British government prompted Straw last month to announce he was "minded" to send Pinochet home on compassionate grounds rather...
...There's no surprise in this decision, since it is common for medical reports that are being used as grounds to dismiss a court case to be made available to both sides," says TIME London bureau chief Jef McAllister. "Straw had been accused of keeping the records out of the hands of those pushing for Pinochet's extradition to make it easier to get the general out of the country. Now his stay will be prolonged, reviving the government's greatest concern - that Pinochet dies in Britain." The medical records that prompted Straw to conclude that the general's physical...
...finding the humor of Orton's lines and delivered his cynical, casually indifferent quips either with too much ernestness or too little conviction. Throw in a pacing that seems just a bit too slow and the result is nothing more than nervous titters from the audience. And the final straw? The too-ridiculously-fake dead Mrs. McLeavy (played by a painted wooden dummy) that eventually just became too distracting to be funny...
...doing the same to a hijacked Indian Airlines plane only weeks earlier - many of the hostages may actually have been grateful for the hijacking: Besides the 19 people now in custody, at least 60 of the hostages have applied for political asylum in Britain. And while Home Secretary Jack Straw might be sympathetic toward people condemned by history to live under the Taliban, he's wary of turning Britain into the destination of choice for the hundreds of thousands of Afghan refugees living in Pakistan. He'll find it hard to show leniency toward those who used knives, guns...