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...marchers in Kabul last week were in their teens and early 20s, the kind of zealous, energetic youths Westerners might have hoped would be clamoring for democracy or human rights. Instead, the cause of their protest was caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad, first published last September by a Danish newspaper called Jyllands-Posten, which in the past two weeks have provoked Muslims around the world to denounce not just the offending illustrators but also French newspaper editors, Norwegian diplomats, U.S. troops in Iraq and peddlers of Danish food. In Kabul the protest signs read DEATH TO DENMARK and DEATH...
...ballerina whose brief, stellar career as a principal dancer with Britain's famed Sadler's Wells Ballet was overshadowed, to her dismay, by her lead role in the 1948 ballet film The Red Shoes; in Oxford, England. Shearer, who continued to act but gave up dancing in her late 20s, said all the hype surrounding the Oscar-winning film "ruined my career...
...aside four “suspicious†individuals in front of Kirkland House last Wedneday to search for any outstanding warrants in their names, according to the police log. Observers report that two plainclothes officers patted down the four men, who appeared Caucasian and in their early 20s. “We’re just talking to some friends,†one of the officers reportedly told witnesses. One of the suspects reportedly said in his defense that “we were just following the leader.†HUPD declined to comment on the specifics...
...Perry is indicative of the story?s ongoing power and the current film?s success in tapping it. The former executive administrator, now a full-time mother, first read ?Through Gates of Splendor? in her early 20s in the 1980s, a quarter-century after the action it described. She doesn?t remember how she got hold of it, but does recall that it was already ?dog-eared? by the time she received it. ?I was looking for heroes,? she says, ?And I was inspired that somebody cared so much about their faith that they would...
RYAN ADAMS 29 Renowned for writing songs faster than most people have life experiences, Adams, 31, fills his third album in the past 12 months with nine lengthy tracks, each of which summarizes a year in his 20s. It's a conceit that at times elevates his self-pity to epic proportions (on The Sadness he wails, "The sadness is mine," over a flamenco guitar lick--¡qué melodramático!), but it also creates moments of immense tenderness as Adams says a reluctant goodbye to youth (Carolina Rain, Starlite Diner) and contemplates a commitment to something other than himself...