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...King is dead, but the parties live on. Elvis Presley died on Aug. 16, 1977, and now, 20 years later, it seems like every institution in Memphis, Tenn., from Graceland to Presley's old karate school, is playing host to memorial events. Some 50,000 fans are expected to descend on the city for Elvis Week, including a sizable number of fan-club presidents, for whom special events are planned...
...summit, below the Hillary Step, with Doug Hansen, a friend and client who had reached the top after two tries, and there they both died. Before that happened, Hall had radioed to his wife Jan in Christchurch, "I love you. Sleep well, my sweetheart." Fischer, too weak to descend in the gale, froze to death somewhere below. Eight others died from the storm, but of several climbers who missed Camp Four in zero visibility and huddled all night in the snow, most survived. Rescuers already at the tents did what they could to find the others, without much success...
...Providence (the island with the capital and most populous city, Nassau) teems with Americans and is ripe with McDonalds, Dunkin' Donuts and other American fast-food chains. So, although the Bahamas are a foreign country, it would be plain wrong to assume that Spring Breakers descend on the islands for anything but the hedonism that they hope will follow...
...House and was willing to pay for it. And every week we learn more about a White House willing to place politics before policy. Just when it began to look as if the scandal was mainly about Chinese influence peddling, it turns out that all kinds of hustlers could descend on the White House like gamblers to Vegas, feeling lucky. It didn't matter if the player was a global wheeler-dealer like Tamraz, whom Interpol wanted to question in connection with $200 million that vanished from a bank in Lebanon where he once was chairman. The Clinton casino never...
...West Coast rappers. "Whether we accept it or not, the rap groups are a movement," says Mutulu, who is serving a 60-year sentence in a federal prison in Atlanta for his role in an armored-car robbery in 1981. "The wrath of the government has come to descend on the rap industry...