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...irony that they were totally useless in the attempt to aid victims of the attack is not lost on them; they were just preparing to ascend into one of the towers when it collapsed. All they know now is that they must stay awake; to slip into unconsciousness is to slip into death. So they croak and whisper in broken sentences mainly about the families they do not expect to see again. In what may be the film's most striking image, a vision of Christ appears to Jimeno; he is offering him the thing Jimeno most wants--water...
...side and vice versa. "The human catastrophe would be extraordinary," said an Army colonel. If partition happens, an Iraqi official told Reuters, "Iraq as a political project is finished," and chaos ensues. Colonel Hammes identified a more basic, undeniable problem: "Talking about a new strategy is useless until we get a new team-in the Pentagon, in the Administration. These guys have screwed up everything. They haven't got the credibility to implement anything...
...long unkempt existence—was apparently deemed to be an unbecoming look given what the agency nominally was.The grime accentuated the building’s weirdly Gotham feel—it is divided into two five-story wings which fan from a taller, and, might I add, completely useless center. Nowadays, everyone knows Sayansi because the chosen remedy to its erstwhile grunginess was to paint one wing a bright blue, and the other an equally radiant white. The two bodies of paint meet in a momentous curve that swoops from the South wing’s top floor...
Squeezed between them, her own weapon still useless as anything except a club, Jessi could only watch. "They were on both sides of the street, and we were trapped in the middle, and they were hurtin' us bad," said Jessi. The Iraqis used rocket launchers to cripple the trucks. The grenades exploded against sheet metal or blew up geysers of sand. "I didn't kill nobody," Jessi said. She seemed ashamed. "We left a lot of men behind...
...Things are looking so rosy, in fact, that the BOJ has begun to fret that the biggest danger is that the economy will expand too rapidly. BOJ policy-board member Kiyohiko Nishimura has warned that low rates could promote "useless, excessive investment," and Fukui has vowed to raise rates "without delay" should investment become rampant. Those fears may be coming to pass. Last week's much-watched Tankan business-sentiment survey indicated that Japan's largest companies plan to increase investment at the quickest pace in 16 years. "The Tankan survey showed the economic climate is slightly overheated," says Takeo...