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Bass isn't the only old-timer who spends his free time sucking wind in the mountains. A gaggle of weather-beaten seniors are following in his footsteps up jagged peaks, skirting crevices and negotiating rocky paths. Some started late in life; others have climbed since Depression-era Boy Scout outings. "We have what we didn't have 50 years ago, which is a group of people over 50 who've stayed fit, who are getting out, who have disposable income and who've achieved a very high level of performance," says Peter Metcalf, CEO of climbing manufacturer Black Diamond...
Trombly testified that after being taken to the station house, he was unhandcuffed and brought by Byrne to an empty room where he was beaten...
...filled out by potential jurors—covering issues such as police brutality—in addition to the standard juror-selection queries. Stearns simultaneously denied a defense motion to give jurors a guided in-person tour of the Brighton, Mass. district station house in which Trombly was allegedly beaten...
Fear Itself is subtitled A Fearless Jones Novel, but the narrator-hero is actually a brainy and somewhat wimpy bookstore owner named Paris Minton. "I'm a small man," he tells us. "I've been chased, caught, and beaten by big-boned women." Fearless Jones, it turns out, is Paris' best friend and polar opposite: superhumanly strong, infernally lucky, ridiculously handsome and very, very good at beating people up. You might say Paris plays Watson to Fearless's Sherlock Holmes, if Holmes had been a jock instead of a nerd...
...stage works overseas that put the U.S. in a distinctly unflattering light. In Paris a "savagely satirical impromptu" called George W. Bush or God's Sad Cowboy has been drawing crowds since reopening in late Mayafter closing for two weeks when its writer-director, Attilio Maggiulli, was beaten up by a couple of pro-Bush thugs. (Talk about satirical impromptus.) It portrays the U.S. President as a spoiled 6-year-old who sucks his thumb and plays toy soldiers with his pal Tony Blair. By the end of the play, Bush is trying to annex the entire Middle East...