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...Team hands out orange wristbands to the twenty-one-and-up crowd. As people line up for their beer, they are offered slices of pizza in an attempt to curb binge drinking. Even the house itself is protected from the hazards of hard partying, its hardwood floors covered in butcher paper and its bookshelves wrapped in plastic...
...DIED. FRIEDRICH ENGEL, 97, former Nazi SS officer accused of executing Italian prisoners of war; in Hamburg, Germany. Known in Italy as the "Butcher of Genoa," Engel was handed a seven-year suspended sentence in 2002 after a German court found him guilty of ordering the massacre of 59 Italian naval commandos on the outskirts of Genoa in 1944. A federal appeals court quashed the conviction in 2004 citing a lack of evidence, and ruled that Engel's advanced age prevented a retrial...
...really enjoy "spontaneous" moments, and despite years of evidence, they believe nothing provides more of them than star-filled medleys. What we learned is that Joss Stone, John Legend, Fantasia, Maroon 5, Ciara, Will.i.am, Steve Tyler, Joe Perry and Robert Randolph all have one thing in common-they can butcher Sly Stone songs beyond recognition. But at least they tried, as opposed to super duper secret guest star Sly Stone, who emerged with a platinum mohwak, strode to the keyboard, played around for a minute or two and then promptly left. Of course, if someone had killed my songs...
...provide a few delicious examples of irony. Perhaps the best I have encountered, though, was French Prime Minister Leon Blum’s remarks to a visiting German minister in 1936. While talking to the ambassador of an ideology that would, in the near future, invade his country and butcher millions of his coreligionists he said: “I am a Marxist and a Jew, but we cannot achieve anything if we treat ideological barriers as insurmountable...
...robes and turban, the Egyptian surfaced via a videotape excerpted by al-Jazeera, offering condolences for the 18 people killed in the attack and mocking President Bush for losing the war against al-Qaeda. Zawahiri said his statement was a "response to this raid," and rebuked Bush as "the butcher of Washington" and a "failed Crusader...