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Last week, after Fieger stunned Michigan's Democratic machine to become the party's nominee for Governor, one of his first orders of business was heading into downtown Detroit, where Jackson was preaching at a crowded Baptist convention. Fieger (rhymes with tiger) is aggressively courting black voters and was looking forward to Jackson's imprimatur...
When terror strikes, it always tears through the comforting screen of normality. One moment, midmorning shoppers and workers bustle along Nairobi's Haile Selassie Avenue at the downtown corner where a bronze eagle and a fluttering flag mark the five-story U.S. embassy. The next, the earth trembles as a thunderclap unleashes a mighty shock wave. Seconds later, black smoke plumes into the sky as the tarmac ignites, flashing fire to parked cars and passing buses. The blast shatters every window within a quarter-mile radius into lethal slivers, blows the bombproof doors off the embassy, sucks out ceilings...
Greasy was undeterred. (I do so like perseverance.) He started on the clubs. Inspired, I launched into a story about a recent trip to a club in downtown New Rochelle. I was so thrilled to have something to say, that I almost told the part of the story about why I hated the club--all the guys were grease monkeys. I didn't know about their occupational titles, but each head of hair stored enough gel to fill a swimming pool...
...abbey in search of Karadzic. "Can you imagine if we came to your church with tanks?" he says. "They can come and take me to the Hague, and I'd welcome it!" In the musty office of the Association of Gusle Players and Epic Poets in a downtown hotel, Mitar Djogo is similarly defiant. After playing a few notes on the gusle, a primitive, one-stringed instrument that produces a noise akin to the bleating of sheep, Djogo says, "All Herzegovina will rise to defend...
Pardon me then when I was disturbed to learn that one of Peoria's most famous and accepted social institutions is a strip club. Big Al's, a "world-famous gentleman's club" located in the middle of downtown, features "the world's most beautiful women," fine cigars, cognac, a lunchtime buffet and Wednesday night wet T-shirt contests...