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...post facing eight soldiers in balaclavas and armed with AKs. His hands and feet were tied and his eyes blindfolded. With the bright blue sea behind him and puffy white clouds above, and to the jubilant shouts of Allahu akbar (God is great) from the crowd, the man's head and stomach were ripped by bullets...
...recent Saturday afternoon as he strolled around Beijing's funky 798 district, a series of crumbling redbrick factories that house the Chinese capital's largest concentration of art galleries. Appearing at an opening for the painter Yang Shaobin, the 44-year-old millionaire businessman stands out from the crowd of black-clad, ponytailed dealers, critics and artists, more John Travolta than Jasper Johns. His black hair is permed into loose curls that flounce slightly as he walks, his torso covered by a tight, long-sleeved silk shirt decorated with swirling white, brown and black shapes, a large medallion bearing...
Tomlin is the chief American practitioner of the pop-sounding "praise and worship" music that has replaced traditional hymns in congregations looking for a younger crowd. (Recently some churches introduced the U2-charist, a Communion service set to the music of U2.) "We've been closing the gap between what you would hear in church and on a rock radio station," says Matt Lundgren, worship leader at Willow Creek Community Church in South Barrington, Ill. "Artists like Chris Tomlin help bridge the gap more and more...
Finally, a movie for all the squares who wish they had cut loose when they were in college. In Spring Breakdown, PARKER POSEY, AMY POEHLER and RACHEL DRATCH play straitlaced thirtysomethings who whoop it up with the popular crowd when they're supposed to be chaperoning a conservative Senator's daughter. "It's Revenge of the Nerds meets Nine to Five," Poehler says of the film, which fellow Saturday Night Live star Dratch produced and co-wrote. In the name of research, the cast did a lot of late-night partying, which doesn't do much for your adulthood cred...
...horrible first period, and it cost us the game,” captain Dylan Reese said. “We buried ourselves in the first period.” The Bears scored just under seven minutes in, when Sean Dersch picked up the puck in a crowd around the net and snuck it past senior goaltender Justin Tobe, and Jeff Prough gave Brown a 2-0 lead at 14:52. “It’s a shock, but that’s been our problem,” Reese said of the two early goals...