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...this hullabaloo represented the upswelling of the heady, tumultuous '60s, an early wave in what would become a tsunami of rock 'n' roll and social and political upheaval? I don't believe so. The decade had begun, it's true, with civil rights demonstrations and protests against the Bomb. And the Beatles' arrival came just months after the shattering event of President Kennedy's assassination. But Woodstock, the Vietnam Quagmire, the hippie phenomenon, the killings of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy?all this and more was still ahead, and largely unforeseen...
...getting used to the idea. From my new perspective, I see now that my friend is way ahead of the game in preparing for a future of embassy dinners and such small-talk situations. Should the conversation ever lag, she can always drop the bomb that, despite being an all-American girl, she speaks Russian, Hindi and Urdu. “It’s not that difficult,” she will smile mysteriously. Impressed by her versatility, she’ll be considered part of that special breed of excellent conversationalists. Of course, it?...
...Whatever the case, the corruption scandal that led to Zhu's downfall still creeps along. In October, police detained Heilongjiang's former Party chief, Tian Fengshan, accusing him of corruption dating to the bomb-shelter scandal. It seemed likely that prosecutors would review Zhu's testimony. Not long after, claims Fan, two retired judicial officials visited Zhu in prison and "warned him not to 'make things messy,'" (A warden declined to comment on the visit.) After that, Zhu became afraid, advising his daughter in Japan against visiting home and warning his sister to watch her son carefully. When authorities unexpectedly...
...haircut, and George gets a laugh when he replies, earnestly, "I had one yesterday." In a crowded elevator, Paul lightens the mood by announcing, "Ladies and gentlemen, on your right you'll see the Washington Memorial." Running down a hotel corridor, George mimics the mob outside--"Ban the bomb!"--and John ad-libs, "Ban the Pope." Trapped in their suite, Ringo plaintively asks, "Are we going...
...death penalty for Ahmad Omar Saeed Sheikh in July 2002 for the murder of U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl, the Islamic militant was defiant. In court Sheikh had his lawyer read a threat to Pakistan's President: "Let's see who dies first, me or Musharraf." Now, after two bomb attempts in December on President Pervez Musharraf's life, investigators are treating Sheikh's warning as more than just bravado. Most of the dozen or so plotters who twice placed bombs on Musharraf's motorcade route belonged to Jaish-e-Muhammad, an outlawed militant group of which Sheikh...