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...LeBlanc comes close. Whether it by demanding that a grouchy old bouncer clap along, or by instructing the crowd to crouch silently on the ground (a remarkable sight) before jumping up to shout the chorus to their hit “Jenny Says,” LeBlanc was a tornado of energy and enthusiasm. Indeed, he was sufficiently gregarious that at times other members of the band could be seen laughing at his intensity...
...didn’t know how to pull the chain at first, so the first few times, it sounded like a tornado,” Donahue says. “You couldn’t even talk on a cell phone in the next room because it was so loud...
...TORNADO WINDS In rare cases, erratic winds within a wildfire create powerful minitornadoes that can shoot spirals of flame into the air and twist trees apart at their trunks...
Reading Michael Elliott's commentary on President Bush's new military doctrine of pre-emptive attack was like watching a cowboy try to rope a tornado [GLOBAL AGENDA, July 1]. Elliott's insistence that some definable rules should apply to this doctrine was an amusingly arrogant demand for intellectual control. But the U.S. is facing an acute life-or-death situation in which it needs no formal doctrine to permit a first strike against those who wish to kill us. For Elliott to warn that our prerogative to strike pre-emptively without a neat list of rules invites "international anarchy...
Chaos theorists suggest that a flap of a butterfly's wings in Brazil could set off a chain reaction that results in a tornado in Texas. The interdependent world of Italian finance works in much the same way. Early this month, the automaker Fiat - admittedly, a rather large butterfly - joined in a hostile bid for Montedison, a conglomerate whose far-flung holdings include Italy's largest private-sector electric company. Such transactions would hardly seem to be the stuff of high drama. Yet that one move called into question the power of the élite investment bank Mediobanca - which owns...