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...After a year in which the world's happiest and most unlikely pop star became both miserable and unmarketable, Mehndi now sees nothing but blue skies ahead. "You know, I was a very bad taxi driver," he says. "Always looking in the mirror at myself and imagining I would be a big star in music. Nearly many accidents. But Daler Mehndi has no accidents in music. Yes, I struggle, I arrive and then I lose everything. But in music, I am very happy. And bhangra is very happy music. So in music, Daler Mehndi always has clear road ahead...
...Terrorists: Why Not Negotiate? The decision by the Philippines to withdraw its peacekeepers from Iraq in exchange for the release of a Philippine truck driver who was kidnapped by insurgents is to be applauded [Aug. 9]. Surely it is the duty of any government to safeguard its own people before anything else. The Philippines did not cave in to U.S. pressure or sacrifice one of its citizens to satisfy the Bush Administration. C.A. Van Meurs Christchurch, New Zealand...
...DAVE MATTHEWS BAND'S eco-anthem Don't Drink the Water must seem like darn good advice to Chicagoans. Illinois is suing the socially conscious jam band and one of its drivers for allegedly discharging "80 to 100 gallons of liquid human waste" from its tour bus onto a boat full of sightseers on the Chicago River. According to the $70,000 suit, the driver violated state environmental laws and doused dozens of tourists, causing some to be hospitalized. "We feel awful for the people who were on the boat," says the band in a statement. "We have worked closely...
CHARGED. MARK THATCHER, 51, son of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher; with helping finance a foiled coup plot in oil-rich Equatorial Guinea; in Cape Town, South Africa. The ex--race car driver, whose business career has been dogged by accusations of questionable arms deals and other shady ventures, was placed under house arrest in Cape Town, where he moved two years...
Margaret Dell is 96, but you'd need to check the birth date on her driver's license to believe it. Sporting a baseball cap with a Harley-Davidson logo on it, she is the designated driver for her seventysomething friends who no longer feel comfortable behind the wheel. Last winter a snowfall threatened to keep her from her appointed automotive rounds. She took a shovel and cleared a path to her car. Driving keeps Dell young. That and knitting. She constantly knits. She makes baby booties and caps and blankets for friends and family whenever a baby arrives...