Word: secondly
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...bumptious way the news went public, is likely to stir them up further. After Bush spoke, there was more confusion at a news conference held by the doctors who attended Cheney at the hospital. Alan Wasserman, president of the hospital's medical faculty associates, mentioned that Cheney's second blood test for the cardiac enzymes given off by a damaged heart muscle showed that Cheney's "enzyme levels were slightly elevated." Anyone who is not a cardiologist might suppose he was just passing on an innocuous test result. What he was actually offering was medical jargon that signifies a mild...
From the beginning, the film seemed cursed. "We started shooting in the Gobi Desert," recalls director Ang Lee, dimpled but unsmiling. "That night the crew got lost in the desert until 7 a.m. We finally got going, and after the second shot, a sandstorm came in." Could things get worse? Ask producer Bill Kong. "The Gobi is the hottest, dryest place on earth," he says. "So each morning we lit incense for good luck. Well, we had dreadful luck--it rained sheets, nonstop, ruining our schedule. After a while one of the local people came around and said the gods...
...Asian star power, Crouching Tiger depends on Jen--on Zhang, in only her second film. The actress says she labored under "a pressure not to disappoint the director. I felt I was a mouse and Ang Lee a lion." When first seen, Jen seems lovely but unformed, a dreamy adventuress, a spoiled rich girl with a skill to match her will. Gradually, though, Jen (or, rather, Zhang) reveals a more toxic, intoxicating beauty. Will she become a fearless heroine or a ferocious killer? Zhang, surely, is guilty of one crime: she steals the film. "She allows the audience to pour...
...rules, so it was hard to cry foul when the discussion degenerated, as online talk is apt to do. One brother kept forwarding dirty jokes and chain letters. Others traded barbs ("You are an Ivy League idiot") and drivel ("How was David Letterman? I only saw second half...
...Allstate, the second largest underwriter of homeowner policies in the U.S., stopped offering such coverage a couple years ago. Industry leader State Farm Group is eliminating the coverage state by state. Third-ranked Farmer's Insurance has stopped the coverage as well. Of the 15 largest underwriters, only Chubb continues to offer guaranteed replacement value, says the Insurance Information Institute. And even Chubb has stopped offering it in harsh-weather zones...