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...remote mountain village. "All of a sudden, a big air plane appeared from between mountains, just like out of no where," he recalled. "Four times it leaned to the left, and each time it tried to recover its balance to the right. It was flying just like a staggering drunk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Disasters: Last Minutes of JAL 123 | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...least that many cross undetected. If the border "invasion" is not stemmed, Ezell predicts, "we'll be overwhelmed. We can't take all the undeveloped countries. We'll become one ourselves." Obviously angry about the problem, Ezell wants everyone to share his emotion. "The public gets mad at drunk drivers. They need to get mad at illegal immigrants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Immigration's Happy Warrior | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...from one raucous engagement to the next: "By my third birthday, I had logged 150,000 miles, occasion for an AP wirephoto captioned: 'She Sees America.' " She also witnessed an endless string of saloons and her parents' behavior in them: "Pat was a two-fisted drinker. Cy was a drunk, charming and good-humored when sober, combative and cold-eyed when drunk." Liquor fueled fights between them, as did their constant lack of money. They also, Cyra recognized later, baited each other with flagrant infidelities: "Pat and Cy competed in sexual conquest as they competed in everything else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Satisfying Reconciliations RAIN OR SHINE | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...geriatric crooners weren't unorthodox enough--they have sung with break dancers and a gay men's chorus--consider their new sidekick, the Drunk Stuntmen, a real rock-'n'-roll band with members the ages of their grandchildren. The two Northampton groups share some songs in Road to Nowhere, which they performed in the Netherlands last fall and plan to take in October to London, where Young@Heart will do 12 shows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock on, Grandpa! | 6/13/2005 | See Source »

...April of 2003, the defendant had been walking home drunk, clad in shorts and sandals, when Colono, who sat in a parked car, heckled him for being “shitfaced.” After a 70-second brawl, Pring-Wilson struck Colono five times with a three-and-a-half inch Spyderco military knife. One of the blows pierced the victim’s heart...

Author: By Robin M. Peguero, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Emotions Run High At Murder Trial | 6/9/2005 | See Source »

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