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...attention, profilers have long warned, to a serial killer's first strike. The first of the bullets that strafed the suburbs of Washington last week sliced through the air over a drab strip-mall parking lot in Aspen Hill, Md., and cracked a nickel-size hole in the front window of a Michaels craft store. It then arced through a leafy display of silk autumnal bouquets, zipped behind the head of a female cashier and pierced a hole through thelamp over the register of lane No. 5. Emerging on the other side, it whizzed over a Christmas-ornament display...
America needs to control the rich, oil-producing regions in the Middle East. And given the state of most European armies, the U.S. also needs to defend the interests of its allies and friends. Let us hope that a successful pre-emptive strike on Iraq will leave in its wake the preventive medicine of fighting corruption in the Middle East and will reduce radicalism there. Stefan Collinet-Adler Nancy, France...
...also want to point out that the word feta is originally from Latin, not Greek. BOTTOM LINES "I know very well that the Stability Pact is stupid." Romano Prodi, European Commission President, admitting that E.U. deficit limits are too rigid "Of all the places to be marooned by a strike I guess this is the best." Emma Marsh, tourist in Venice, after her flight home was canceled when unions launched Italy's second general strike this year "Sentencing Andersen at this point is akin to sentencing someone you've already executed." Jonathan Hamilton, editor of Public Accounting Report, on last...
...insert a Hollywood-style pop-psychological back-story. Her heroine, she says, is just "an ordinary girl in extraordinary circumstances who acts in a way that is totally unconventional." This is familiar territory for Ramsay. In Ratcatcher, set in a grim 1970s Glasgow housing project during a refuse collectors' strike, a young boy tries to send his pet mouse into outer space, tied to a balloon. Ramsay came late to that kind of weirdness. Raised in a working class district of Glasgow, she was weaned on nothing more unconventional than Douglas Sirk and Bette Davis movies. She stumbled into filmmaking...
Kristol answered Deutch’s hesitancy to attack by emphasizing Saddam’s ability to strike American interests if he is left alone...