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During her Golden Jubilee year, QUEEN ELIZABETH has traveled around the country allowing her subjects to throw flowers, blow kisses and otherwise demonstrate their appreciation for her 50 years as monarch. Last week, as she and husband Prince Philip toured Newcastle, local resident Brynn Richard Reed expressed his feelings in a less conventional way. Jogging alongside their Rolls-Royce, Reed waved and shouted, "Yoo-hoo!" But chances are, what caught the royals' attention was Reed's unavoidable nudity. That and the words RUDE BRITANNIA scrawled across his buttocks. Police dragged him away, but he may have given the Queen...
...first day of sales or how many Toyota Camrys were driven off the lot that first week. But movies, as our proudest and most exciting cultural export, are monitored by Americans the way they used to watch the NASDAQ. There's a kind of pride that we can blow $115 million in one weekend on a comic-book movie; Spider-Man was our May Day. And if $115 million of fun was going on in one weekend, people want to be at the party...
...Readers longing for a respite from hard-news cover stories registered their gratitude for the guide to the new Star Wars movie. "Thank you for reporting on something that does not blow up civilians on a bus, drive tanks through refugee camps, molest children or plot to destroy America," wrote a relieved Virginian. "I'm content to focus on events that take place a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away." Agreed a New Yorker: "A little comic relief is frequently necessary for survival, when we consider the times we live in." And a North Carolina teen asked...
...warheads. Two of the three wars fought between the two countries started off in Kashmir. Since the beginning of the year, both have mobilized their armies along their common border and kept them at high alert, a state of war readiness prompted by a December terrorist attack intended to blow up the Parliament building in New Delhi. And last week, 30 people were killed by some fidayeen, a suicide squad that sneaked in from Pakistan, setting off a fresh round of accusations, the possible expulsion of Pakistan's ambassador from New Delhi, and some heavy shelling at the Line...
...choice for the philosophically and intellectually inclined—it had a patent of respectability and was different from just getting high,” he says. “I was eager to try it because I was intellectually adventurous and saw it as an opportunity to blow me into a new place, a state of non-existence...