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...after an eight-and-a-half-hour standoff - the doors of the bus opened to cheers from the crowds and children began to pour out. In the door of the bus, Jun Ducat - with what looked like a submachine gun slung under his arm - and an accomplice could be seen delicately handling what appeared to be hand grenades and passing them out to police. The two men were rushed into a police van and immediately whisked away to headquarters. This time, officers say, charges will be filed against them...
...follower of the game will tell you, is that cricket is neither gentle nor even that noble these days. Over the past decade international cricket has been shaken by a series of scandals - match fixing, doping, illegal bowling actions (a cricket ball must be delivered with a straight arm; a bent elbow as in baseball's pitching action is impermissible) - that have sandpapered away much of the honor and decency that the game once embodied...
...strikingly soft-spoken for a radical troublemaker. As the founding mother of the gay and lesbian rights movement, Barbara Gittings changed the lives of those in her community with an elegant act: coming out in the 1950s. In that ultraconservative era, she founded the New York arm of the first national organization for lesbians and later lobbied to change the classification of homosexuality as a mental illness. The sign she carried at a 1965 White House protest--SEXUAL PREFERENCE IS IRRELEVANT TO FEDERAL EMPLOYMENT--now resides at the Smithsonian. She was 75 and had breast cancer...
...total U.S. Chartreuse sales rose 18% last year because the monks got religion when it came to marketing. Green Chartreuse, which was first sold in 1764, retails in the U.S. for $40 to $45 for 750 ml. Jean Marc Roget, president of Chartreuse Diffusion, the brand's marketing arm, says the brand's updated website--"more modern, colorful and informative"--helped bring about worldwide sales of a million bottles of Green, V.E.P. and Yellow, totaling $13 million. "Many professional sommeliers, bartenders and maître d's love to know the history of the liqueur," says Roget...
...plans to arm its officers with Tasers—weapons that are used to subdue suspects by releasing a disabling electric charge—potentially making it the first Boston-area police department to add the weapon to its arsenal. Tasers have come under increasing scrutiny because of concerns about the risk they may pose to suspects, with an Amnesty International report released last year concluding that 61 people died in the U.S. in 2005 after being shocked with a Taser gun. Police Department spokesman Frank T. Pasquarello said in a phone interview yesterday that no money has yet been...