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...fellow translators Adam and Vanessa and I were lounging around the office one quiet afternoon when an MP's urgent-sounding voice came over the radio: "Translator needed pronto on cellblock Charlie." Adam and I both bolted. As we cleared into Charlie block, we saw medics rushing there as well. Out in the yard I saw a detainee, blood all over his right arm and covering his feet, halfway on a stretcher with the left side of his body dangling...
...MP summoned me over to the shower. There was another puddle of blood, with more smeared on the wall. I realized that the blood on the wall was writing. The senior officer asked me to translate. "Sir, it reads: 'I committed suicide because of the brutality of my oppressors,'" I said. The young soldier cowering on the steps had been tasked with monitoring the detainee. When he heard me, he looked horrified. I could see he was blaming himself for the carnage, and I walked over to him. "This wasn't your fault," I said...
...income tax cuts along with increases in public spending. Result: a growing budget shortfall, which the European Commission warns will equal 3.6% of Italy's GDP in 2005, well above euro-zone limits. "Berlusconi wanted to be like Bush, pursuing an expansionist policy by running a deficit," says opposition MP Enrico Letta. Having patched over coalition differences, the PM is playing it safe - he's stopped calling for income tax cuts, and though he dare not renounce the League's federalist goals, prospects for action on that front have dimmed. For the next year, Berlusconi's main mission will simply...
...father's business empire in Saudi Arabia, seems a virtual shoo-in for Prime Minister if he chooses to run. Many hope that Saad can finish the job of rebuilding and reuniting Lebanon his father began. "He is very capable and very serious," says Marwan Hamade, a leading opposition MP. "He has the knowledge and the guts. From where he is now, Rafik Hariri should be satisfied...
...whole process consumes vast quantities of computer time. One minute of film may involve as many as 100 billion calculations, driving the costs of TV commercials as high as $4,000 per sec. But conventional filmmaking techniques can be even more expensive. Using a Cray X-MP supercomputer and the latest graphics technology, the special-effects team at Digital Productions was able to create the battling spaceships in the film The Last Starfighter for $4 million. To produce the same scenes with scale-model miniatures would have cost $12 million to $24 million...