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...Suddenly, a murmur starts near the athletes' entrance, sweeping through the press corps as it turns into a roar. "Casey's here!" This is Casey FitzRandolph, the American who's currently in first place, and who also happens to be one of Wotherspoon's best friends. Just as he stops directly across the barrier from me, I notice that FitzRandolph looks pretty dejected for someone who's got a good chance of winning a medal...
...interview, the 17 chattering elders sat silently. As he spoke of his peoples' desire for peace, their weariness of war, their need for aid, his respect for international law and his willingness to hunt down the man he was once close to, there was not as much as a murmur. Some would nod, but in the most discrete way. Rais, it was clear, still owns his fiefdom. This man had no need to Shanghai his soldiers. He wrapped up the interview, saying he had to go, "I have a meeting with my commanders...
...triumph, the army of Taliban faithful has collapsed. If the scouts are right, he has had to flee to the deepest recess of a Tora Bora cave. His prediction of inflamed and inspired Muslims flocking to his cause was refuted by the quiet of the Arab streets and the murmur of clerics who denounced his acts. The superpower that was supposed to cringe and flail instead sent its best warriors to search and destroy...
...were responsible for a range of crimes, including bank robberies, assassinations and bombings of churches and Hindu temples. At the time, some opposition leaders accused Mahathir of manufacturing the terrorism bogey to undermine his political enemies. The more recent arrests of six other alleged militants have raised not a murmur of protest. "People feel there is something in the Islamic militancy issue after Sept. 11," says Chandra Muzzafar, deputy president of the National Justice Party, a PAS ally founded in the wake of Anwar's arrest. "Any party associated even in a tangential way with militancy has no chance...
...Every crisis has brought new embassy travel warnings to my inbox. And every time a travel warning for Indonesia arrives, I hear a collective murmur from my multinational friends here, whose ranks include indigenous Balinese villagers increasingly dependent on tourism, Chinese-Balinese businesspeople and American and European expats working in the large tourist hotels. The murmur is always the same. "Tell them Bali is different?" they urge me. "Tell them Bali is safe, even happy...