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Since he didn't look as if he had stumbled out of a cave, investigators believe Rudolph must have received help over the years. "If he's been living in a mobile home, you'd assume quite a few people knew he was there," says Ronald Baughn, a retired federal law-enforcement agent who helped investigate the Atlanta and Birmingham bombings. Indeed, Rudolph had become a local folk hero. In Murphy, T shirts and coffee mugs appeared saying RUN RUDOLPH...
...possession of his first Grammy (for last year's album Jamaican E.T.), and encamped at London's plush Royal Festival Hall, where his three-week stint as curator of the 11-year-old Meltdown festival kicked off on Sunday. Each year, Meltdown invites a musical luminary - Laurie Anderson, Nick Cave, Elvis Costello, David Bowie - to devise a series of challenging concerts and musical collaborations. Now that it's Perry's turn, he gets to send party invites to old friends and other artists he's only heard...
...Tasaday controversy has raged ever since. It will never be resolved, because from the beginning their cave, whether or not it was their actual dwelling, was run as a media attraction by Manuel Elizalde, the Philippine politician who became their patron. And that made it impossible to carry out any sort of legitimate scientific research. Elizalde favored journalists over anthropologists; celebrities such as Charles Lindbergh and Gina Lollobrigida (who was a chum of Imelda Marcos, for whom she wrote the text of a coffee-table book about the Tasaday) choppered in to have a look at the prelapsarian freaks...
...staffer for former U.S. Secretary of Labor Robert B. Reich, one of Romney’s democratic opponents, the petition is no more than liberal frustration over a conservative choice. Students at the KSG, trained to recognize the workings of the political process, should know better than to cave to such partisan politics and appreciate hearing from a high-profile state leader, regardless of his political stance...
...instance in which Barrett purposely alluded to a known fashion universe was in scenes set in Zion, the last remaining human colony, which Barrett describes as a very "civilized" place, even though it looks a lot like a muddy cave. In these scenes, she avoided artificial and stiff fabrics in favor of draping, natural fibers. "Everything [in Zion] is grown hydroponically," she explains. "They grow flax and hemp and things you can weave." (The fact that this is never mentioned in the film gives you a hint of the totality of the Wachowski brothers' narrative vision.) Barrett says she based...