Word: pulling
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...from other countries in Africa who are unequipped and outmanned in the fight with the rebels. Faced with a force far too strong to fight, the untrained peacekeepers were kidnapped, their supplies stolen by the rebels, who will become even stronger as a result. Now Nigeria has decided to pull out their troops, and the British are evacuating their citizens from the country. These actions are sending a clear message to the rebels of Sierra Leone--the West does not care about Africa and will not intervene...
...surprising that Rudy's allies tried to quash the idea that their man might back away. His aides point to a big upcoming ad buy and an upstate swing this week. His friends concur. "Pull out? That'll never happen," said Staten Island borough president Guy Molinari, who survived a bout with prostate cancer while running for re-election in 1997. When Molinari got the news, he immediately called Giuliani. "I said, 'Hey, Rudy, welcome to the club.' This is one of the easiest cancers to beat. It didn't stop me, and it won't stop...
...movie's producer, can say, "Anyone with a little showman in his blood knew it could work." And now the rest of Hollywood knows too. Even before it opens, Gladiator smells like a hit. Its early glow has movie people saying "Of course!" Of course there's a magnetic pull of audiences to Roman Empire epics--stories about palace sex, political backstabbing and violent raids are as today as the Clinton Administration. Of course Ridley Scott, whose only big hit was the 1979 Alien but who directed influential films such as Blade Runner and Thelma & Louise, possessed the vision...
...Canaan, Conn. Yet this is the same girl who, at the age of 14, found herself alone in a Texas hotel room with a 41-year-old pedophile she first met in an AOL chat room about six months earlier. As he groped her breast, she tried to pull away but could only think to say, "I love...
...tested. But Carey is bolstered by a jovially hammy production, with music composed by Stephen Schwartz (Pocahontas). It's testimony to modern adults' pop-psych self-absorption that Disney has recast the story around the puppetmaker dad's parenting issues. At least they picked a charming guy to pull the strings...