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...Come they did. Before dawn on Tuesday, thousands of pro-Estrada supporters swarmed to the palace, bearing stones and clubs. Inside her war room, Arroyo could hear the ominous battle din: the bursts of warning gunfire, a tempest of stones thwacking police riot shields, the mob's murderous roar. Arroyo says she has an intimate knowledge of MalacaNang, having lived there as the daughter of former President Diosdado Macapagal. Therefore, she knew all the palace's secret passages and escape routes. Outside, police battled rioters for more than 12 hours. More than 100 people were injured, and at least four...
What evil force has Hollywood in its grip? Nothing as campy as what science fiction can envision, to be sure. The latest tempest in Tinseltown (and no, it’s not J. Lo’s increasingly warped fashion sense) is that the contracts which the WGA and the Screen Actors Guild of America (SAG) have with the television and film industry (represented by the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers) are set to expire on May 1 and June 30, respectively. These 14,000 WGA members and 135,000 SAG members constitute the brains and the brawn...
...expects that this letter will change anyone's mind in the new administration, or give us a better chance at that great government pension in the sky. We just want to set the record straight, and to perhaps warn other soft-hearted folks who, foundering in the tempest-toss'd seas of contemporary employment, have set their compass needles square on the sweet, sheltering shores that are the Washington job market...
...music industry fought a rear-guard action against the forces--and free music--unleashed by an 18-year-old named Shawn Fanning and a piece of computer code he called Napster. Or on the front lines of the agritech wars, where the opponents of so-called Frankenfoods stirred a tempest in a taco shell when genetically engineered feed corn not deemed safe for human consumption (because it might cause allergic reactions) turned up at Taco Bells and other outposts in the human food supply. It was big year in space too, as a team of Russian and American astronauts took...
...Sunday, as the clanging of the radiators shook Harvard students from their sleep with the announcement that another brutally cold New England winter had arrived, a tempest of mythical proportions raged across the pond. For three days, the Brits were forced to ride out a full-force gale that produced tornadoes, blizzards, heavy flooding and dangerously fierce winds. The storm, labeled by experts as the worst in the last quarter-century, wreaked havoc with the country's transportation systems and caused at least fifteen deaths...