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DIED. MICHAEL KAMEN, 55, Grammy-winning, Oscar-nominated composer who scored more than 80 movies and television shows, including all four Lethal Weapon films, three Die Hard pictures and HBO's Band of Brothers series; of an apparent heart attack; in London...
...Manila stock market fell nearly 2% and the peso tanked to its lowest level in a century. The Central Bank governor quickly announced that the markets weren't freaking out over Poe alone but were reacting to "a series of events over the last four weeks." Indeed: a band of congressmen tried (unsuccessfully) to impeach the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court; the administration of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo saw a mini-exodus of officials, including respected Finance Secretary Jose Isidro Camacho; kidnap gangs ran riot in Manila; power blackouts were predicted for vast stretches of the country...
...Thanksgiving Day, my family went to the big Barnstable-Falmouth game. It was warm and bright; the marching band played the national anthem, the Barnstable High School fight song, and then, at intervals, the “hey” song. The cheerleaders clapped rhythmically, bounced from foot to foot, and tried, unsuccessfully, to engage the crowd in call-and-response chants. When, for the first time since 1996, Barnstable lost, my brother says the other football players cried. “It’s weird how much it mattered to them,” he said...
...Paris. On Nov. 15, this message appeared on a web forum hosted in the Netherlands, according to Magenta, a watchdog group in Amsterdam: "Just throw that Muslim vermin, those f___ing Muslim rats out of the country." And on the same day, Agrese 95, a Czech "white power" band, played before some 150 people in central Bohemia, singing lyrics like: "Enough tolerance ... Your future is ovens and gas chambers." Most incidents like these do not make headlines. Although they would be denounced by the vast majority of Europeans, they are often not recognized by police - and their perpetrators aren...
...thanked the troops for their bravery. The loudest cheers came with Bush's promise to hang in here, despite the soaring attacks against troops. "We didn't charge hundreds of miles into he heart of Iraq and pay a bitter cost in casualties? only to retreat before a band of thugs and assassins," he said, as soldiers leaped to their feet, roaring their approval...