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...exploded simultaneously on their way to Black Sea resorts. Chechen terrorists were the likely suspects. Six days later, a car bomb destroyed the entrance to a Moscow subway station—on the same line I had taken the day before. The day I arrived in St. Petersburg, a band of terrorists took over a middle school in Beslan, a small southern town. And by the time I left the country, 360 children, parents and teachers were dead, many of them shot in the back as they ran from the school’s collapsing gymnasium...
...Aegean Sea. Since becoming Patriarch in 1997, Petros helped revive interest in the church, expanding its missions and influence and acting as peace broker between Muslims and Christians in the Middle East and North Africa. DIED. JOHNNY RAMONE, 55, guitarist and paternal driving force behind the Ramones, the rock band that defined the 1970s punk movement; of prostate cancer; in Los Angeles. Born John Cummings in suburban New York, he and three other teens formed the group in 1974, taking the name from an alias Paul McCartney sometimes used in hotels. During the next 22 years they developed an underground...
...DIED. JOHNNY RAMONE, 55, guitarist and co-founder of seminal punk band The Ramones, known for their angsty punk anthems like I Wanna Be Sedated and Blitzkrieg Bop; after a five-year battle with prostate cancer; in Los Angeles. Ramone, born John Cummings, helped craft The Ramones' thrashing, guitar-driven songs and unadorned pop melodies that became a model for future groups from the Sex Pistols to Nirvana. Despite his rebellious image, Ramone was a teetotaler and staunch Republican who belonged to the National Rifle Association...
...progressive politics (mostly) to yourself. "Onstage, I tell people to go vote," he says. "But what I vote for? Nobody cares. At least not right now." The rules McGraw breaks--by wearing a bad-guy black hat instead of the white one good guys wear, recording with his touring band, the Dancehall Doctors, as opposed to studio musicians--are so absurd that he seems just roguish when he flouts them...
...Clash were the best band in the world. And that year at London's Vanilla studios, they began work on their classic, London Calling. But the rehearsal tapes were left in the underground by a drunk roadie and thought lost. Now for the 25th anniversary, London Calling is being re-released with the newfound "Vanilla Tapes." TIME's Hugh Porter spoke to former Clash guitarist Mick Jones. your roadie recently confessed to losing the vanilla tapes. how did they turn up? They were thought to be the only copies, but at the start of this year I moved house. While...