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BLOODY HELL, I'M IN A SAND TRAP...
...making. Clare Short, his longtime International Development Minister, quit the Cabinet last week to protest the U.N.'s marginal role in Iraq, but blasted Blair for issuing "diktats in favor of increasingly badly thought-through policy initiatives." To British voters, arrogance and Brus-sels are intertwined - yet another trap for Blair. And even if somehow, sometime, they could be persuaded to vote Britain into the single currency, the process of joining would be awkward on both sides. "Britain might be a source of considerable friction in the euro zone," says Daniel Gros, director of the Centre for European Policy Studies...
...original conception of the elaborate opening ceremony, Zoninsein would have wound her way through the Yard for eight hours. (Another version called for her to start on the other side of the river 48 hours before.) Then, a hydraulic lift on the stage would have lowered her through a trap door and hoisted Lithgow up from below...
...Yemeni killer grabs and tears the collar of his shirt, he thinks of other hands. Of caresses. Of games from his boyhood." Lévy also conjures up the thoughts of the admitted and since convicted ringleader, Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, on the restless night before he sprung his trap on Pearl. Sheikh, Lévy finds, is a "perfect Englishman" of Pakistani origin, a chess player and champion arm wrestler, a brilliant student at the London School of Economics who embraced radical Islam during a stint in Bosnia in the early 1990s. Lévy knows from court testimony...
Nothing says ass-trap like an on-campus leadership position. As a Crimson President once said to me, “It’s not my game that’s gotten me ass. It’s this office, this desk, the trappings of my authority. Without this institution, I’m just another lackluster Macchio-slut looking for something to toggle against...