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Israeli public discourse inclines more towards irreverence than sentimentality, so it should come as no surprise that comedians are making hay out of the one-year anniversary of the stroke that felled former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, leaving him in a coma from which he has shown no sign of recovering...
...ravenous statesman munches a few of his favorite falafels, then asks a hospital orderly what has happened in Israel while he was asleep. After hearing all the grim news, starting with the fact that his underling Ehud Olmert had snatched his job and blown it, he decides that a coma is better than reality, and drifts back to sleep...
...criminal investigation in London. Lugovoy and Kovtun were said to be in the hospital with radiation poisoning, but there was no independent confirmation of that. After his interview with the British detectives, Kovtun was reported by the usually reliable Interfax news agency to have lapsed into a coma, but his lawyer quickly denied it. Hamburg police found alpha radiation in the apartment of Kovtun's ex-wife and in the home of his ex-mother-in-law, but were not able to say whether the source was polonium 210. For their part, British officials were hoping further tests might...
...that lead directly into the ocean. Deluxe villas include lush landscaped outdoor bathrooms. And if you need further opportunity to slide into a stupor, check out Sen Spa, which offers such packages as a white-sand-and-coconut scrub followed by a massage that almost put me into a coma. When I ask my villa neighbors, Giuseppina Orlanduccio and Agustin Vazquez, both 22, what they like about Baros, Vazquez leans back on his outdoor daybed, grins lazily and replies, "The silence. The beach. We talk. It's perfect." If the young Italian couple suddenly got an urge to down some...
DIED. Billy Preston, 59, effervescent master R&B keyboardist of the '60s and '70s, later derailed by struggles with alcohol abuse and cocaine addiction; after a long battle with kidney disease that had left him in a coma since November; in Scottsdale, Ariz. At age 7, Preston started directing choir sessions at his Los Angeles church before impressing larger audiences with such hits as Nothing from Nothing and Will It Go Round in Circles? Yet to such peers as Bob Dylan and the Beatles, the gregarious, gospel-influenced virtuoso, who also wrote You Are So Beautiful for Joe Cocker...