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...Villem, the Patarei's project manager, who wants to exorcise the ghosts of the past by turning the fortress into an impromptu arts center. The party is a tailor-made metaphor for Estonia itself: freed from the confines of a half-century of totalitarian rule, it's having a blast experimenting with unorthodox ideas as it races to make up for lost time. Estonia has been a frontier state throughout its history, bumping up against Russia to the east and facing Finland across a narrow gulf. Since the three Baltic republics regained their independence in 1991 with the collapse...
...just could not believe people cared what I said," Maines says in the film. But after issuing two statements - first a clarification, then an apology - within three days of the original blast, she got her feist back. When country star Toby Keith posted a doctored photo of her with Saddam Hussein, Natalie donned a T shirt emblazoned with the acronym F.U.T.K. (In the movie she sees an anti-Chick protester wearing another T shirt, one that reads F.U.D.C., and wonders, "Whaddaya have against Dick Cheney?") She also held onto her sense of humor when the death threats came. Read...
...watchdog group's beef with Interior is tepid compared with the blast delivered a day earlier by the department's own inspector general, Earl Devaney. In scorching testimony before a House Government Reform subcommittee the no-nonsense Devaney charged that during his seven years as Interior's IG his revelations of misdeeds and foul-ups have been routinely "disregarded by the department." Numerous IG reports on regulations circumvented, procurement irregularities, project failures and bureaucrats being awarded bonuses despite their failures have been met with "vehement challenges" by Interior officials "to the quality of our audits, evaluations and investigations," he told...
...flight 11 that crashed into the World Trade Center. Hennessy had been flying to Los Angeles for a business trip and planned to surprise Corcillo with a visit. Corcillo recalled his blue-eyed friend who was often found wearing baggy pants and Oxford shirts as a “blast to have around.” “He threw the best parties ever,” Corcillo said with a chuckle about their undergraduate years. “He was always the best dancer and the best DJ also.” Hennessy passed on his traits...
...Joseph Alexander played the last ten minutes of the blowout in goal.“[The freshmen] have given us a lot of energy and brightened up our offense,” Kerr said. HARVARD 3, MAINE 1Fucito provided the opening salvo midway through the first half with a blast from the edge of the penalty box that beat Maine (0-5) goalie Giacomo Brunino, and the Crimson rolled from there to its second straight 3-1 decision.Freshman Adam Rousmaniere added a second first-half goal to give Harvard the cushion it needed as play tightened considerably in the second...