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...elimination rounds, and just 30 will make it to the final show. But the deluge of applicants continues. "People have definitely become very, very aspirational," says Pradeep Guha, president of the Times group, who decides on the shortlist. "I have had parents come in and cry, plead, threaten and even exert political pressure to push their child...
...withdrawn before the air strikes in late 1998. But without inspectors, Iraq's compliance can't be certified, even though former Marine captain Scott Ritter, who as a U.N. arms inspector was at the center of the 1997 showdown in Baghdad, insists that Iraq currently has no capacity to threaten anyone with weapons of mass destruction. In other words, sanctions have long since served their original purpose of blunting Saddam's ability to bully his neighbors...
...targeting masked demonstrators. But what they see as a step toward public safety has been criticized as an attempt to put democracy up for sale. The ordinance, which sets a fine of at least $75, allows police to arrest mask wearers who evidence "the specific intent to intimidate or threaten another person...
...forever to an institution far away and the police department could go back to its business of caring for just the eccentrics. But since deinstitutionalization of mental patients in the 1960s, when thousands were released from sometimes abusive institutions, they have become Chief Huff's business. When they threaten themselves or somebody else, he holds them until there's a place at Mississippi State Hospital, two hours north in Whitfield, where they typically get treated for 21 days, only to find themselves back in Chief Huff's care. "If somebody goes off their medication and slaps their mama or they...
...North. Who gets to go? Most perplexing of all, where does one start in trying to meld North Korea's Stone Age economy with the Internet-savvy South. Then there's the issue the two leaders merely flirted with: the weapons of mass destruction that Pyongyang uses to threaten the rest of the world. Warns Victor Cha, a Korea expert at Georgetown University in Washington: "Handshakes and hugs and delightful small talk are all very nice. But all the tougher issues are still out there...