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There are front-page wrap-ups of Monday's Egyptian horror at the WP , NYT , and USAT . The big news there is that Egypt's largest fundamentalist terrorist group has claimed credit for the atrocity, saying that it was undertaken to seize hostages to trade for the cleric imprisoned in the U.S. for plotting to blow up NYC landmarks.
Three or four sturdy fellows are appointed to lead and whip the cat: these, on a signal given, seize the nd of the cord, and, pretending to whip the cat, haul the astonished booby through the water.
It is not the first time that actors have tried to seize the reins of production--that was in 1919, when Mary Pickford, Charles Chaplin, and Douglas Fairbanks joined forces with William S. Hart and D.W.
The LAT reminds readers that in 1996, 1,500 Chechen fighters were able to seize back their capital from 12,000 Russian troops, and that this humiliating defeat is fueling Russia's current ferocity.
The United States also helped Suharto to seize power back in 1965-66, sanctioned his occupation of East Timor in 1975, and basically looked the other way at three decades of one-man rule and serious human rights violations.