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...violence in the Tibet Autonomous Region in March. "They don't allow politically sensitive cases to get anywhere," Richardson says. "I'd be very surprised if this turns out to be different." Liu Li says she just wants to know why her daughter's school turned into a death trap. She, like the other parents holding photos of their dead children on Children's Day in Dujiangyan, await an answer. It probably won't come from a lawsuit...
...have been found in a forestry area known as West Pencil Pine, a favorite devil haunt. That suggests that the disease's spread is slowing. Could local devils be resisting it? Belov and Woods are both itching to compare MHC types in the region, and a major effort to trap West Pencil Pine devils will soon begin. "The next month could be a watershed," says Woods. "We're hoping for a lot of positive data...
...like to trap any writer - especially one as good as Mamet - in my expectations. He surely has a right to reach for a new manner whenever the spirit moves him. But the LA demi-monde he's exploring (often with his shrewd observational skills fully intact) seems to cry out for the intensity of expression that made plays like Glengarry Glen Ross and movies like The Verdict sing with a sort of atonal harshness, helping them transcend the rather confined situations he prefers. Redbelt (the title refers to the highest honor available to jiu-jitsu fighters), despite its novel milieu...
...agent from the secret service barricaded the bathroom door. Even CNN's Wolf Blitzer was turned away. After a time, the door blockade was lifted, but no VIP emerged from the urinals. The men decided, as they finally relieved themselves, that either the tiled bathroom held a secret trap door, or the rumor was true that President Bush had been holding in an adjacent room, and his security did not want to risk someone dropping a cherry bomb down the toilet...
...commitment to engagement can cause the door of academic tolerance to be left open too wide, giving way to the pernicious sense that anything or anyone that presents an “alternative” reading of societal affairs is worthy of our attention. This same sort of trap breeds academics like Cornel R. West, the professor whom former University President Lawrence H. Summers rightly forced out after he failed to present any academic work more substantial than a rap recording.We see this barrier in Shvarts’s project too. Take, for instance, the guest column published...