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...that we have seen already. A talented attorney at one of London’s largest law firms, Williams has his life rattled by the appearance of a ne’er-do-well school friend from Ireland. Geordie literally shows up on Danny’s doorstep with ?50,000 in stolen money and intentions of staying with him long enough to avoid the Loyalist militia types who are after their money...
...killed by the virus or culled, while 22 people have been infected and 14 have died. But an ambitious and wide-ranging national response has drastically reduced both avian and human cases since the peak of the outbreak in the autumn of 2004. As H5N1 spreads to Europe's doorstep, learning from Thailand's methods could help other countries keep the disease under control. Step 1 is early detection. Many of Thailand's 250 million chickens live in small household farms scattered throughout the country. Official surveillance could easily miss those birds, but a broad network of community health volunteers...
...plan is set into motion when they also enlist the worst director in the business, the flamboyant (to put it mildly) Roger De Bris, played by scene-stealing Gary Beach. And fate comes knocking when Ulla, a sexy aspiring actress with a heavy Swedish accent, shows up at their doorstep. Although they hire her as a secretary/receptionist, sparks fly between her and Leo. All seems well until, despite their best efforts, the show opens and accidentally becomes a runaway success.The Broadway production improved immeasurably upon its source material—the 1968 Best Original Screenplay Oscar winner starring Gene Wilder...
...bombs dropped by the U.S.) More moderate voices are silenced. A 2000 film by one of China's leading directors, Jiang Wen, remains banned because it depicted friendliness between a captured Japanese soldier and Chinese villagers. Although the film showed plenty of brutality, censors ruled that "Devils at the Doorstep" gave viewers "the impression that Chinese civilians neither hated nor resisted Japanese invaders...
...Bush national security aide Michael Green acknowledged that "the tone is different sometimes" and that "sometimes you get a slightly different emphasis," although the goal of a non-nuclear Korean Peninsula is the same. "For the people of the Republic of Korea, the Demilitarized Zone is right at their doorstep," noted Green, senior director for Asian affairs at the National Security Council. "Seoul is as close to the DMZ and North Korean artillery as the White House is to Dulles Airport. So it's very much a clear and present threat for the people of the Republic of Korea...