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...early teens, Padilla joined the Latin Disciples, a mostly Puerto Rican gang. When he was 14, Padilla and several friends assaulted and robbed three men. When one victim gave chase, one of the other boys stabbed him in the stomach, according to court records. Padilla helped the boy throw the man to the ground and then kicked him in the head. The pair took cash from the victim's pockets and left him in an alley, where he died. Padilla was convicted of aggravated battery and armed robbery and went to juvenile detention until...
...provided no details, but agents started comparing intelligence as well as material from safe houses they had raided. Out popped Padilla's name, the official says. They then matched the name to a passport photo of Padilla and checked the identification with Abu Zubaydah, who confirmed it. The chase...
...news to Disney and its Old Guard animators. It's a bright, engaging bauble with half a dozen Elvis Presley songs for Mom and Dad, and just enough sass--Stitch sticks his tongue into his nose and eats his snot--to keep the tweeners giggling. Lilo (voiced by Daveigh Chase) gives the usual lonely-but-superior Disney heroine a twist: she is a brat who has anger issues. And far from trying to save China or morph from mermaid to human, this Hawaiian handful has no goal loftier than the status quo--to keep living with her frazzled sister Nani...
...splurged on an AIBO named Hal two years ago. She looks back nostalgically on Hal's first day as a member of the family: "I was so happy. I felt like I was looking at a new being." She still plays with Hal every day after work?it can chase a ball, grasps dozens of simple remote-controlled commands and its software allows it to "mature" over time, behaving less and less like a puppy. On some weekends, Toba organizes meetings of AIBO owners so their plastic pets can play together. "I know it doesn't have consciousness," she says...
...Cassatt was not alone. By the late 1870s Impressionism was already an established movement in France. American painters were flocking there to embrace the new style, blending European approaches and techniques with their own influences and vision. Cassatt and her contemporaries - including John Leslie Breck, Childe Hassam, William Merritt Chase, John Singer Sargent, Theodore Robinson - created a style known as American Impressionism, which remains largely unknown in Europe. Now the Hermitage Foundation in Lausanne, Switzerland is offering a rare glimpse at 59 paintings created from 1880 to 1915 by 33 American Impressionists; some of the works have never been seen...