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...SINGAPORE: Strict measures Singapore's much-vaunted internal security apparatus still hasn't quite recovered from the shock of discovering a well-advanced al-Qaeda plot to detonate seven large truck bombs at embassies and other key sites in the city-state late last year. "They were absolutely horrified at how close the plan was to execution," says a source who has worked closely with the Singapore authorities on terrorism issues. Not that the authorities didn't swing into action with characteristic efficiency once the plot was uncovered. With nearly 40 alleged militants now in prison, Singapore officials insist there...
...book, Langewiesche writes that “it was hard to avoid the conclusion that the looting had begun even before the first tower fell,” implying that firefighters themselves had filled their truck with the items...
It’s June 16th, 1937, and director Orson Welles is phoning furiously, trying to find a theater to house his politically charged and abruptly banned epic musical, The Cradle Will Rock. His stage manager is circling around town with a piano in her rented truck, waiting until Welles chances upon a vacant theater where he will lead cast, crew and bewildered audience. The actors, forbidden by their unions to perform that evening, are prodded on by Welles, as they rise from their seats, recite their lines and bring an astounded audience to their feet...
...chaos” of Harvard-Yale two years ago because of “alcohol poisoning at the ‘life-threatening’ level,” Lewis warns with a flashlight under his chin. Another of our brilliant peers fell off a truck and “could easily have become a quadriplegic.” Everyone was okay in the end, of course, but just imagine what could have happened...
Obviously, don’t drink to the point where you’ll fall off a truck. And if you’re underage, well, Harvard-Yale is of course not meant for underaged drinking. But if you’re legal, and if you’re out there, come prepared...