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There is nothing inherently wrong with that, provided the new material is interesting. Most of Ned's additions are. Several are funny, including Ned's attempts as a Service neophyte to tail and protect an oil-rich sheik and his shoplifting wife on spending binges across London's West End...
At one level, the debate concerns intellectual honesty. At least one human- rights organization believes the Kuwaiti government in exile may be orchestrating exaggerated tales of horror for political gain. "The situation is bad enough when you consider just the tragedies that can be objectively verified," says Andrew Whitley, the...
Arnold Schwarzenegger is a director too. This year he did The Switch, a 25- minute episode on the cable-TV series Tales from the Crypt. It's a little morality play that asks the question, What do you have to do to become Arnold Schwarzenegger?
But there are far grimmer effects. Harrowing tales are told by interns and residents, many of whom routinely work 120-hour weeks, including 36 hours at a stretch. Some admit that mistakes are frighteningly common. A California resident fell asleep while sewing up a woman's uterus -- and toppled onto...
The effort has been impeded because virtually no country capable of manufacturing centrifuges is willing to sell them to Iraq. Baghdad has thus embarked on a strategy of purchasing the technology and materials necessary to construct its own centrifuges. Tales abound of secretive transfers of nuclear- related technology -- some completed...