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...According to the lawsuit, "Boot Camp" producers LMNO pitched CBS on the show last June, with one twist: The drill sergeants - those real-life Marine "save the drama for yer mama" guys with the big hats - would do the voting...
...illustrate this point, Qiu set the mood for his lecture-entitled "Invisibility: Mixed-media Art" and delivered in Mandarin-by playing a silent video of himself painting calligraphy, with a twist. Instead of watching Qiu write the characters, the viewer instead watched as his hand methodically erased each character from a sheet covered with calligraphy...
...professional Secret Service agent she first appears to be. Flannigan takes the word "professional" to another level entirely, transforming halfway through the movie from one unconvincing role to another. First, she is caring, wide-eyed, in awe of Cross, then suddenly she is cruel and contemptuous in a plot twist worthy of the trashy swamp thriller Wild Things. But that's divulging too much already...
...vote isn't on the books yet - Lott, after learning of Republican defections, voted in favor in order to allow a revote once he'd had a chance to twist some arms - but it was enough for head Democrat Tom Daschle to seize on it as "a repudiation of the President's policies and priorities." And after Jim Jeffords (R-Vt.) announced earlier in the day that he was ready to defect on the overall budget - "unless a miracle occurs, I fear I'm bending in that direction" - it was pretty clear Cheney's presence was only going...
...Though authoritarian leaders are supposed to be immune to polls and popular will, Jiang also had to worry about the Chinese public. Anger at the U.S. could easily twist into fury at him for failing to defend the motherland. "If Mao Zedong were the leader today, he would have shot down the American plane," says Li Hua, a physics student from Shanghai, who counts KFC as her favorite takeout. "But our leaders now don't have the guts to get in a fight." At first this incident looked like a reprise of the Belgrade embassy bombing. Anyone watching the official...