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Though Knoxville and his band of modern-day Knievels made only 25 episodes (the series was cut short after running into criticism from parents and Senators), their craft lives on, not only in imitation homemade, backyard-wrestling-style tapes advertised in late-night cable commercials but also in their final project: a new MTV film, Jackass: The Movie, opening this week. The movie differs from the TV show mostly in that it will be shown in theaters...
...with the sniper shootings, after a neighbor called police to report what he called "repeated gunshots" from the vicinity of the house. The home is also close to Ft. Lewis, where Muhammad was based during his military service. After surrounding the house and plotting out search grids in the backyard, police there removed a tree stump from the property, which they say appears to have been used in target practice...
...last January, the two men were living together in Tacoma, Washington, near Fort Lewis, where Muhammad had been stationed. Sometime during the winter, nearby neighbors called the police when they heard gunshots coming from near the house. Police, who Wednesday removed a tree stump from the backyard of the house, believe Malvo and Muhammad may have used the tree for target practice. The Seattle Times reports that when Muhammad and Malvo showed up in July to visit Muhammad?s former sister-in-law Sheron Norman in Louisiana, the older man introduced the boy as his son, according to Norman...
...rich, controlled voice that can come only from long effort, which doesn't show ostentatiously on the page. Like History, it's a murder mystery in which the mystery is secondary. Twelve years before the novel begins, Harriet's 9-year-old brother Robin was found hanged in the backyard. Harriet's family--social pillars who have lost their wealth but not their hauteur--have not healed well. Her father has abandoned the family; her mother has checked out emotionally, leaving Harriet's rearing to the maid and the Alexandria, Miss., library, whose blackhearted adventure tales--Stevenson's pirates, Kipling...
Just say no to melons. that's what pope PAUL II might do, if he had a second chance. He learned firsthand about indulging in the pleasures of a certain kind of flesh. On a hot summer afternoon in 1471, His Holiness was reportedly lounging in the Vatican's backyard, enjoying the sun, the fresh air and some refreshing slices of melon. Then he died. The reputed cause: apoplexy, induced by overconsumption of iced Cucumis melo. Since practically the day human beings first walked the earth, we've had trouble turning down fruit, and by 1800 the Western world...