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...gathered for a poolside toga party. Near the end I stupidly agreed to put a pair of handcuffs on with Uch for a silly picture. Candice pushed me in the pool, but Cathy failed to push Uch in the pool with me—and the handcuffs bent and broke against my skin. After I barely avoided getting hit by Cathy as Uch threw her in the pool, I looked down and saw a deep gash carved out of the center of my hand. It’s basically healed now, but it remains to be seen what scar...
...Moreover, recent history in the region may encourage the guerillas to believe that NATO's will can be bent. The fact that most of the weapons used in this insurgency came from Kosovo is testimony that the Western alliance may not have been entirely rigorous in its disarming of the Kosovo Liberation Army or the policing of the KLA's heirs. More recently, when NATO mediators brokered an agreement requiring guerrillas in Macedonia to retreat from villages around Skopje, those insurgents carried their weapons onto buses ferrying them to a safe haven despite NATO's initial insistence that they could...
...bands with diamonds," an alleged violation of an agreement prohibiting the rings' reproduction or sale. The bands, available in lovely 18-karat gold, were selling for a mere $1,000 at outlets in Palm Desert, Calif., and at Las Vegas' Venetian Hotel. The suit also claims that "Damiani was bent on obtaining...the type of publicity that money can't buy: the purported endorsement and sponsorship of perhaps the world's most recognizable couple." Siegfried and Roy might have something to say about that last part...
Best movie star, best TV host and best comedian? Come on! TIME is bent on reducing American popular culture to nothing but adolescent pap! P.J. PESCE Los Angeles...
...unlikely hotbed of anarchism. In Seattle's 1999 antiglobalization protests, it was a group of Eugene activists who helped lead the mayhem; they formed part of the "Black Bloc" that broke windows and trashed stores. But few if any Eugeners are headed to Genoa this week, despite their anticapitalist bent; they're too busy at home. Local anarchists broadcast a weekly radio program and two cable-television shows. They publish half a dozen 'zines, from Black-Clad Messenger to F___ the System, the new jailhouse rag from Free and Critter, and Rob the Rich!, published by prisoner Robert Thaxton...