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Gosh, this feels good. Almost inexplicably, an economy that looked rotten two weeks ago has suddenly turned super. Construction, factories, services, retailing--you name the tune and it's got an upbeat tempo. The latest twist came Friday, when the Labor Department reported net job creation for the first time in seven months and a drop in the unemployment rate to 5.5% in February, from 5.6% the month before. Normally, unemployment continues to drift higher for a few months after a recovery starts. This could be the beginning of one of the quickest job rebounds ever...
...twist to the scandal, plaintiffs' lawyers involved in the deposition of Duncan's former assistant Shannon Adlong told TIME last week that the shredding of documents actually began on Oct. 13--10 days before Andersen admitted it started and a day after Temple's memo. Adlong, who was responsible for ordering extra bags for the shredded papers, said so much evidence had to be destroyed that 32 "trunks," each the size of a football locker, were hauled off by a shredding company...
...threatening graffito discovered late January on a concrete wall along Hong Kong's Bowen Road is the latest twist in a bizarre string of poisonings that has terrorized the city for 13 years. The leafy pedestrian walk running through the affluent Mid-Levels neighborhood is the epicenter of a spree that has claimed over 20 dead and made at least 100 seriously ill. Despite community uproar, heightened police patrols and the aid of an international expert, the killer's trail remains cold. A key reason, say critics, is that the victims are dogs...
...doubt helped by Nair’s decision to film almost entirely on Super 16mm—blown up to 35mm—retaining the mesmerizing freneticism of the hand held camera. Just when the sprawling rhythms of the film seem to settle into a rhythm, however, a melodramatic twist is introduced at the heart of the plot. The twist is at best, unnessecary, but at worst, jarring—a clunky piece of engineering that suddenly makes it unclear whether we are watching a light hearted romantic comedy or a deeper sociological commentary...
...Then came a nasty but surprisingly effective twist: on March 12, 1993, 10 bombs simultaneously exploded in Bombay, some of them near Hindu targets. At about 300, the body count was alarming and the message was clear: the Muslim community was telling the Hindus to cool it or real war would break out. The Hindus relented, but voted increasingly for the BJP. The party took power for 13 days in 1996 in a doomed coalition. After elections in 1998, it cobbled together a stronger alliance, which insisted that hard-line Advani - legally charged with being responsible for the mosque...