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...Communist style press conference arranged Thursday by the Chinese leader. Just before the two leaders walked to their positions Friday at the lecterns in front of the presidential retreat, the atmosphere had to be suitably arranged. Two of the dark suited ones worked a wash tub sized vacuum cleaner over the red carpet and the expansive water fall that had been showering over a tall rock formation was turned off. As Bush spoke, his translator scratched and tortured her steno book, making circles and slashes as if trying to get the pen to write. In flawless Chinese, she repeated...
...most famous for their gritty and groundbreaking debut street drama Menace II Society, have returned from a five year absence with From Hell, a thriller/crime drama concerning the infamous serial killer Jack the Ripper. Although the Victorian era legend needs no real introduction, for those living in a cultural vacuum, the story is as follows: From Aug. 7 to Nov. 10, 1888, at least seven prostitutes were methodically murdered and mutilated in the Whitechapel district of London’s East End. It was the first instance of a serial killer in the modern Western world, and absolutely unique because...
...dealing with our relationships with Russia, China, and Europe, we have been making policies in a vacuum,” he said, mentioning that the U.S. currently has a record number of unilateral economic sanctions. “Recently, we’ve been undoing those because we need each other for mutual self-interest...
...healthy to argue, vent your anger, the experts say, but there is so much of it, especially in the city with a gash in the ground where our skyscrapers used to be. In lower Manhattan they vacuum and wipe, go to work, go to a funeral, then come home, vacuum and wipe, scream at the community-board meeting about the filth in the air--How much asbestos is there anyway?--and the absence of school buses. After the first few weeks of quiet, the city's crisis hotlines are blistered with calls and there are no beds available...
...military power an unavoidable component of the campaign to neutralize the Saudi terrorist and his Al Qaida network. And it's safe to anticipate that such attacks may critically weaken the Taliban's grip on power, leaving the allies to contemplate the challenge of helping to fill the power vacuum of a post-Taliban Afghanistan. The challenge is nothing if not daunting...