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...Jonah M. Knobler ’03, of Knobler.com fame, is underage, but his pockets are ready for his 21st birthday bash. Just three years from now, his bottle opener will be popping “A cold Corona [sigh].. I just heard it’s good...
...conscience. He not only organized his fellow tappers into a rural workers' union but also formed them into human barriers whenever chain saws and bulldozers threatened the rain forest that was their livelihood. Mendes' Gandhi-like tactics brought him global acclaim--and enemies. A week after celebrating his 44th birthday with his children and his wife Ilza, shown with his picture, he was cut down by ranchers' bullets...
...negotiating team (a demand that was met) to a call for the release of imprisoned World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Yousef and others convicted of terrorism in the U.S. The group also announced just last week that it had beheaded two Filipino hostages from a previous kidnapping as a "birthday present" to President Joseph Estrada. As the Philippine navy searches the countless small islands and inlets of its vast archipelago for signs of the group, the hostages may be ruing their choice of vacation destination. Paradise, sometimes, comes at a shocking price...
...long, British subjects have had to rely on newspapers, magazines and television to bring them images of their future monarch. But shortly they will have another medium on which to glimpse his visage. To commemorate PRINCE WILLIAM's 18th birthday (June 21), the post office on the British island of Jersey will issue stamps featuring the fetching royal against a variety of backdrops. They will "show his sporting side, and the fireworks represent a celebration at his coming of age," says philatelic artist William Wall. One stamp's backdrop was supposed to show Caernarvon Castle, where William's father...
...have been thinking about Dan for weeks, not just because of his birthday but because - this sounds odd, I suppose - someone designates April as National Poetry Month, and shows on National Public Radio and public television have been broadcasting a lot of poetry, and bookstores like Barnes & Noble have prominent displays of poetry on their racks...