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...killing Hawkins were jobless school dropouts with histories of drug abuse -- mirror images in whiteface of underclass young black males. The whites had armed themselves on the night of Aug. 23 because the former girlfriend of their alleged leader, Keith Mondello, had invited black and Hispanic guests to her birthday party. They mistook Yusuf and his comrades for those guests...
...Louis Comfort Tiffany threw a party for himself to celebrate his 68th birthday. "When the savage searches for the gems from the earth or the pearls from the sea to decorate his person," Tiffany told several hundred guests at his lavish studio, "he becomes an artist in embryo." That idea informs $ nearly all Tiffany's prodigious output. As decorator, craftsman and glassmaker, he fretted over his place in history. Was he embryo or master? Artisan or artist...
When you're fiftysomething, you're entitled to a little extravagance. But few birthday parties could match the spectacle staged by Iraqi President Saddam Hussein for his 53rd last month. Saddam invited Cabinet members, prominent government officials and diplomats to his home village of Tikrit for lavish festivities that included a two-hour parade and banners proclaiming YOUR CANDLES, SADDAM, ARE THE TORCHES FOR ALL THE ARABS...
...HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BUGS: 50 LOONEY YEARS (CBS, May 9, 8 p.m. EDT). And he's never been more popular. Among the celebrators: Bill Cosby, Mary Hart, Hulk Hogan and Porky...
...weight of Vietnamese history indicates that the official is right. Nevertheless, there is more to celebrate in Vietnam than the 100th birthday of Ho Chi Minh. Vietnamese in the North and South alike are beginning to hope their country can transcend its old divisions and enter a new age of prosperity. In Hanoi, Nguyen Van Su, 75, sits in front of his sewing machine in his own little shop. Says he: "I remember when Ho Chi Minh declared independence. We all liked it. Now the government is calling for reform. I like that too. It's the direction the whole...