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...Basque Country are bracing for intensified violence. ETA has also threatened to act against those who support the banning of the party - a stance which certainly helps Judge Garzon make his case that the political party and the terror group are intimately linked. But it also raises the specter of a new season of bloodshed by ETA and the aggravation of tension both in the Basque Country and in Spain...
...bird-man character with webbed feet and a crow's beak wearing a jacket and hat from the 1950s. The stories mix reality with nonsense, and humor with sadness. One episode has the bird-man followed around by a skeleton no one else can see. Unable to ditch the specter of death, bird-man accepts him as a houseguest, sharing his snacks and bathroom. When bird-man suddenly dies, killed by a meteorite falling on top of him, death seeks out a new friend who will undoubtedly die soon. The sad and lonely life of Death's Specter typifies...
...cowboys seem a bit small in the saddle. Those cattle they round up have become politically incorrect: for many, meat is an obscene cuisine. It's not just the additives and ailments connected with the consumption of beef, though a dish of hormones, E. coli bacteria or the scary specter of mad-cow disease might be effective enough as an appetite suppressant. It's that more and more Americans, particularly young Americans, have started engaging in a practice that would once have shocked their parents. They are eating their vegetables. Also their grains and sprouts. Some 10 million Americans today...
...supreme self-confidence that they knew best how to get there, even if it meant trampling on liberties along the way. As these strongmen saw it, for many Asian states the stakes were simply too high to take a chance on unbridled freedom: potential unrest in China, the specter of communism in Indonesia, the risk of being overshadowed by a neighbor like Singapore, the peril of racial conflagration in Malaysia. Through death, ouster or abdication, the Deng Xiaopings, Suhartos and Lee Kuan Yews have passed from the scene. And now?if he goes ahead with his drawn-out exit strategy...
...that. But will he be able to prevent the less desirable opportunities from turning into a new generation of debt-ridden corporations that may someday require costly bailouts? "All the talk of transparency and governance has raised expectations very high," says the CEO of a listed corporation. If the specter of cronyism appears to be returning, he warns,"it would have a disastrous impact overseas?and at home as well...