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...shot but strangled--he rose fast at the Times, made friends, wooed mentors and eventually got sent to Washington to join the team covering the hunt for the Beltway sniper. There he brought glory to the paper with front-page scoops that left rivals shaking their heads in wonder--and disbelief...
...greatest of mayhemic ease. Yet especially after Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (whose fight choreographer, Yuen Wo-ping, performs the same function here), a certain been-there, done-that feeling steals over one. And around the third time Neo confronts his endlessly replicating nemesis, Agent Smith, you begin to wonder if someone could have thought of something else for them to do. We're in sequel land here--bigger bangs for bigger bucks, but without the freshness, the boyish joy in their own inventiveness with which the Wachowskis infused the original...
...weeks roll by and the promised adjustment to Shanghai's suspected SARS caseload hasn't materialized, a restive undercurrent has many beginning to wonder how a city of 16 million could be so lucky as to have just a handful of SARS patients. Residents aver that they aren't worried yet; nevertheless, face masks and vitamin C are in short supply. "I don't think anyone believes there are hundreds of cases being hidden here, like in Beijing," says a Shanghai respiratory-disease specialist who, along with other doctors in Shanghai, has been forbidden by the local propaganda department...
...most were later released. And they claimed responsibility for the 1999 theft of four religious statues from churches in southern Italy, demanding that the hierarchy give $53,000 to the poor. The ransom was never paid, the statues never returned. Given that taste for direct action, it's a wonder the Blissett Project's four founders - Roberto Bui, Giovanni Cattabriga, Federico Guglielmi and Luca di Meo - had the patience to pen a doorstopper like Q. The novel is a sweeping saga of the 16th century religious wars touched off by the Reformation. Fast-paced, richly detailed and teeming with hundreds...
Noriko Katayama walks this route every day, and as several large buildings were demolished recently to make way for CGIS, she began to wonder what was going to happen to the one house that was left...