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...cheering his team on against Celtic are singing "We're up to our knees in Fenian blood!" ? And what passions does an IRA anthem stir in the heart of Celtic's favorite forward, Henrik Larsson, whose mother is Swedish and whose father hails from the West African island of Cabo Verde? Once, Rangers only signed Protestant players; today, like Celtic, they've followed the trend of shopping in soccer's global labor market in order to make themselves competitive in the pan-European leagues that are the most lucrative for the continent's clubs. So, while the fans treat...
...never waited as much in my life," says the Sydney native, who's now based in Los Angeles. Byrne is talking about last year's shoot of Troy, on which she spent much time holed up in a trailer outside Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. "And even when you get on set, you wait for days and days and days. Everyone was waiting. Brad was waiting. There was no discrimination. There was one point where people were like, 'What's going on down there...
...block imports of Black Death vodka, a beet-based beverage distilled in Belgium and being test-marketed in Chicago, Los Angeles and other cities. Health officials claim that the vodka's marketing theme, which includes coffin-shaped packaging, is designed to encourage young drinkers. The brand's U.S. wholesaler, Cabo Distributing, denies targeting minors. But the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, with exquisite literalness, is blocking the liquor on grounds of misleading advertising, since the brand seems to promise poison and plague but delivers only vodka...
...this time of year, the Cabo de Hornos Hotel in Punta Arenas (pop. 100,000) is ordinarily filled with tourists who spend their days browsing in the local tax-free shops or mounting expeditions into the rugged, mountainous countryside just out of town. But the 120 mostly American scientists and technicians who converged on Chile's southernmost city for most of August and September ignored advertisements for hunting, hiking and ski tours. Instead, each day they scanned the bulletin board in the hotel lobby for the latest information on a different sort of venture...
...described by a publicist as a "very simple" wedding, but for the denizens of the Mexican town of Cabo San Lucas, the marriage last week of Rolling Stone Keith Richards and his longtime girlfriend, Model Patti Hansen, 27, was more flash than fiesta. Best Man Mick Jagger, 40, flew in from Barbados, where he has been under cover with Girlfriend Jerry Hall, 27. Richards' divorced parents were there: Doris, in from London, and Bert, in from New York. Also present were Patti's mother, sister, three brothers and a few fishermen. After the short ceremony, guests were treated...