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...bungled espionage investigation of government nuclear scientist Wen Ho Lee, the Administration is eager to show it is not singling out Asian Americans for security violations. Albright, under fire from Congress for lax safeguards at the State Department, was not about to give Indyk just a slap on the wrist. Besides, relations between the two had grown chilly because of clashes over how the U.S. should deal with Iraq. "So she's hung Martin out to dry," complains a former U.S. diplomat...
...huge empty house on her own? When she says, "It takes a village," doesn't she really mean "It takes mandatory universal health care, if only you people had listened"? When she shook so many hands in the Puerto Rican Day parade that veins were bulging in her wrist, all the while earnestly asking "How are you?," it sounded tinny, like a hotel operator inquiring "How can I direct your call?" Gail Sheehy reported that after that somber walk across the White House lawn, the one after the President was forced to admit he'd had sex with "that woman...
...cheerfully buries his snout in her crotch. Lawyer Miranda (Cynthia Nixon), cohabiting with scruffy bartender Steve, agrees to buy a pooch with him, and it becomes a metaphor for their unworkable relationship. Husband-hunting Charlotte (Kristin Davis) learns to control her new fiance with a hand on the wrist: Roll over, boy! Then there's Carrie's on-and-off-and-on squeeze Mr. Big (Chris Noth), a sexy, powerful (and married) alpha wolf...
...turn and slow the rotation of his torso on the downswing. He weakened his grip slightly, turning the back of his left hand more square to the target. And as he gained more strength in his forearms, Woods held the clubface square to the target line--with his left wrist slightly bowed--for a crucial split second longer through impact. That produced more consistently straight shots than the old swing, in which Woods rolled his wrists earlier...
Eight were chained together by devices called "sleeping dragons," two-foot long lengths of PVC pipe covered with a thick layer of duct tape. Inside each tube was a bolt and chain which locked protesters' wrist together inside the pipe...