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...their part, defense lawyers tried to discredit some of Smillie's testimony as gossip and rumor and questioned his status as an expert. They'll continue their cross-examination Tuesday, when court resumes...
...Crash Course in Safety I couldn't help being amused by Kay Johnson's article "Postcard: Hanoi," which reminded me of my first experience visiting Ho Chi Minh City [Dec. 17]. My entire time there centered on trying to figure out ways to cross the streets with few regulated crosswalks and with often ignored traffic lights. On more than one occasion, I tried to get up the nerve to step out into the oncoming sea of scooters; a kind Vietnamese would take my hand and lead me across, and on the other side, we both would laugh, knowing that...
...Dolan, known as Ireland's "national aphrodisiac," was one of its most celebrated acts. Unlike others, Dolan also found success overseas with original material. His 1969 tune Make Me an Island reached No. 3 on Britain's pop charts (and No. 1 in a dozen other countries). A cross between Tom Jones and Tony Bennett, Dolan never took himself too seriously. After a 2005 hip replacement, he sold his old hip on eBay for charity. He was 68 and died of a brain hemorrhage...
Launching Catholics for McCain, rolling out new leadership for his religious coalition in Iowa and airing a TV ad about bonding with one of his POW camp guards over a cross, the man who once denounced Christian-right leaders as "agents of intolerance" is making an 11th-hour appeal to religious voters. Behind John McCain's turnaround: Kansas Senator Sam Brownback, who endorsed the Arizona Senator after ending his own presidential campaign. The case Brownback is making to James Dobson and others is that McCain's anti-abortion record, foreign policy credentials and electability deserve a second look...
...fascination with China - an enchantment the auction houses hope to extend to the rest of Asia. "The globalization of the art market is greater than it ever has been," Stone says. Observes Malaysian lawyer, author and collector Karim Raslan: "Christie's and Sotheby's increasingly realize their niche is cross-selling globally, between, say, Europeans and Chinese, whereas auction houses like Borobudur and Larasati are cross-selling between Filipinos and Indonesians...