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...swings of his bat. The irrepressible Jackson, who had an IQ of 160 and quoted Frost fluently from behind his mirror shades, is the book's hilarious, hyperverbal hero. He once baffled a reporter with this spitball of a question: "If my team loses a big one, and I strike out with the winning runs on base, are you aware that 1 billion Chinese don't care...
...realize that heart disease and cancer are competing for the same research dollars, but don't blame breast-cancer-awareness programs for taking women's minds off our cardiac health. If we fear breast cancer more than heart disease, perhaps it is because breast cancer is more likely to strike us in our 30s and 40s, when our careers are in full bloom and we may still have young children. Perhaps it is because breast cancer can be disfiguring, damaging our self-esteem and interfering with our most intimate relationships. Certainly, women are concerned about heart disease, but they...
...knows he may soon face the death penalty, but Samudra?accused of being the operational commander of the Bali bombings?is not the only one predicting further violence. A chorus of intelligence agents, diplomats, terrorism experts and police investigators are warning that the next big al-Qaeda-linked strike against foreigners, after last week's suicide bombings in Saudi Arabia and Morocco, could indeed occur in Southeast Asia...
...this writer carry in his laptop, even as women with handbags large enough to blow up a city block sashayed past the checkpoints.) And as Fox began its presentation at Manhattan's City Center, a voice over the sound system announced the words that, in this day and age, strike dread into the heart of anyone...
...MILITARY FORCE The U.S. hasn't ruled out the use of force to strip North Korea of its nukes. Clinton considered a strike on North Korea's nuclear facilities at Yongbyon. But the risk remains that a smart-bomb attack will spark a war that won't be as neat as Gulf War II. Estimates of casualties in South Korea from even a short conflict run to 1 million. The U.S. would again risk international censure for unilateral military action. In April, China and Russia scuttled a U.N. Security Council resolution merely condemning North Korea for pulling...