Word: bashings
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...Brit awards - the U.K. music industry's showcase bash - have been making headlines since they were launched in 1977. But usually those headlines are less about the music being celebrated than the musicians' booze-fueled antics. Pulp's Jarvis Cocker invading the stage to waggle his bottom during an overblown Michael Jackson performance in 1996 remains a memorable hit. So does Chumbawamba drenching Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott in water in '98. But this week's ceremony is meant to be liquor-free, because the Brits are growing up - choosing from a more thoughtful list of nominations and promising...
...Lovers of ethnic and national stereotypes were disappointed by last Saturday’s Canada Club bash, which featured a distinctly un-Canadian booze shortage. “They ran out of Labatt’s at like 11:15,” complained British Columbia native Gordon A. Braithwaite ’03. In a tragedy that has become all too common for Canadians living at home and abroad, Braithwaite was then eaten by a polar bear?...
Desperate to expunge memories of the racially insensitive remarks Lott uttered at Thurmond's 100th-birthday bash on Dec. 5, Republicans selected Frist as their new majority leader on Dec. 23, hoping the surgeon could reattach "compassionate" to "conservatism." George W. Bush, who nudged Lott out and Frist in, has similar expectations. But the President also wants to move quickly on tax cuts and Republican-oriented Medicare reform. And Frist is the least experienced Senator ever to assume the majority leader...
...headquarters is gone, sold at auction. At its offices, a pared-down staff administers old contracts and remaining assets like gas pipelines and power plants. It's nothing like the days when secretaries received gifts of Waterford crystal and executives jetted to luxury resorts to party. Enron's Christmas bash this year: an afternoon gathering in the lobby with coffee, cookies and music by an employee choir...
...Thurmond is an old man who is leaving office not a minute too soon, but at least no politician could get away with the same racist views today. Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott to the rescue. At Thurmond’s birthday bash last week, Lott voiced his pride that his home state of Mississippi had voted for Thurmond back in 1948. “And,” he continued, “if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn’t have had all these problems over all these years, either...