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...destruction tape - still running, unexpressed, in everyone's head - turned toward calculation. Ten subway cars at rush hour - two hundred people in a car - another thousand trampled in the underground in rush-hour panic as the gas spreads through the station. As many dead as 9/11, with a WMD attack spreading a devastating, airborne fear? (See what would happen to the accused 9/11 plotters...
...first black player to win Wimbledon], Idlewild was awash with people. Countless acquaintances suddenly remembered how they had helped her, and crowded close to share her success. The city, which had offered Althea's parents a cramped flat in which to raise their children, honored her with a ticker-tape parade. And people breathlessly wanted to know how it felt to shake hands with Queen Elizabeth at Wimbledon and what they had said (The Queen: "It was a very enjoyable match, but you must have been very hot on the court." Althea: "I hope it wasn...
During the last couple of summer Olympics in Sydney and Athens, American viewers never tired of complaining of being forced to watch major prime-time events on tape delay; knowing the swimming or track-and- field competition had actually taken place 6 or 12 hours before, with the results widely reported over the Internet and on TV, sucked quite a bit of the excitement out of the experience. Now NBC wants some major events at the 2008 Summer Games in Beijing rescheduled so they'll air in prime time in the U.S. - and it's viewers in Europe and Asia...
...News - though only a few newbie talking heads were rattled. One gentleman who came forward to playact a Q&A on the war in Iraq was asked if the recent capture and killing of terrorist al-Zarqawi showed that the Bush war was, in fact, working. Reviewing the tape afterwards, one of the workshop leaders complimented him on his quick recovery. He allowed that the feat was all the more impressive considering that he didn't even know Zarqawi was dead until he was asked about it just then...
...most interesting thing about Coulter is still the way people respond to her. There's a scene in a documentary about Coulter in which a young woman, sputtering with rage, gets in Coulter's face and shouts an obscenity with such force it was chilling, even on tape. Anyone who can inspire that kind of passion is surely worth writing about again...