Word: birthday
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...think it’s going to be on my birthday. It’s funny—doubling up holidays again...
...have no idea whether or not the story is true, but it’s a delight to be able to jog along JFK Street and think to myself, “Pssh. This guy might have a damn street named after him, but I used to get birthday presents from a dude who totally annihilated him in a bout of fisticuffs...
...media interviews. But a potentially lethal brain aneurysm last spring that required delicate surgery, followed by the death of his father, Canadian journalist and writer Scott Young, changed him. Or, perhaps more correctly, opened him up. With mortality grabbing him by the scruff of the neck (and his 60th birthday awaiting him in the fall), Young went into a Nashville studio last March to record Prairie Wind, which may be the most intimate of his 31 albums. Then he agreed to let director-producer Jonathan Demme (Stop Making Sense, Silence of the Lambs, Philadelphia) film two special back-to-back...
...shows, drawing tens of thousands to a park in Bangkok after work on Fridays. He aired allegations of corruption against Thaksin and his family, sparking criminal and civil lawsuits from the Prime Minister. But the suits were dropped after Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej said in an annual televised birthday speech on Dec. 4 that government officials should not over-react to criticism or consult lawyers too quickly. Said the King: "Lawyers tell the PM to sue, to punish ... Do not punish. Punishment is not good...
Cambridge city councillors serenaded the new mayor, Kenneth E. Reeves ’72, who is one month into his term, with a rendition of “Happy Birthday,” at City Hall last night. But they had other business to attend to as well—addressing a range of issues from contracts to cuisine to concrete...