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...strike), but he showed up late on opening night and Mitzi canceled the gig. Lubetkin said his car broke down; Mitzi was upset because he had stopped off first at the Sunset club to walk the picket line. But after his death, she angrily denied any implication that she bore some responsibility. "I was very close with Steve Lubetkin," she says. "I loved him. He was my best friend. I was in La Jolla at the Comedy Store and when I got the message [of his suicide], I threw glasses around. I had a fit, that he would...
...leaders held a minute of silence to remember Mugabe Were, a young lawmaker with Odinga's Orange Democratic Movement, who was slain as he drove up to his gate in Nairobi late Monday night. The police said they had detained three people in Were's killing, which bore all the hallmarks of an assassination: he was shot at least twice in the head from a car that had pulled up next to his. "It is despicable that a member of parliament should be assassinated in this manner," Odinga told reporters earlier in the day. "We have witnessed five bullets that...
...that wasn't stands as a metaphor for the incoherence of our policy toward Iran: the Bush Administration attempts to gin up international outrage by making a claim of imminent danger, only to be met with international eye rolling when the claim is disproved. Sound familiar? The speedboat episode bore an uncanny resemblance to the Administration's allegations about the advanced state of Iran's weapons program--allegations refuted in December by the National Intelligence Estimate...
...Will our television-bereft parents enjoy whimsical hypotheticals about trolley cars and the morbidly obese? Will our liberal education prepare us adequately for the static ahead?Former Yale president Kingman Brewster, Jr., said that a liberal education “makes it less likely that you will be bored with life ... and less likely that you will be a bore to those around you.” Besides the fact that this could be more reassuring—for the price of my tuition, I would prefer to be “guaranteed scintillating”—will...
...five severed heads left on a road leading to Baquba each bore a message written in blood, a warning in Arabic to would-be volunteers for the new grassroots security forces supported by the Americans: "Join the concerned citizens and you will end up like this...