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...plenty of beefs in his hard-knocks life, but the hugely successful Brooklyn rapper and entrepreneur didn't expect a showdown over his plan to visit Michael Eavis's dairy farm in rural England this weekend. The farm is currently surrounded by the vast, temporary canvas city known as the Glastonbury Festival, a massive outdoor music and performing arts festival which the 72-year-old Eavis has hosted since 1970. Jay-Z, Amy Winehouse, Leonard Cohen, Kings of Leon, Jimmy Cliff, Manu Chao, Fatboy Slim and hundreds of other acts will perform on over a dozen stages starting Friday...
...videotape discovered by police in a 2005 raid on a JI safe house in central Java, a balaclava-clad man believed to be Noordin is heard ranting: "America, Australia, England and Italy are all our enemies. We especially remind Australia that you, [then Foreign Minister Alexander] Downer and [then Prime Minister John] Howard, are killing Australia, leading it into darkness and misfortune and mujahidin terror." In May 2004, despite being the subject of one of Indonesia's largest manhunts, Noordin managed to marry his second wife, Munfiatun Al-Fitri, who, according to the ICG report, had wanted to marry...
...candlemaker, goat farmer and gardener. Children's-book illustrator Tasha Tudor, who died on June 18 at age 92 at her home in rural Vermont, was a master of rusticity. But first she was a painter, bringing to life scenes of nature and children inspired by her beloved New England...
Fuller was the descendant of a distinguished and nonconformist New England family. (His great aunt was the early feminist Margaret Fuller.) He never finished college--he was expelled from Harvard twice--and by the 1920s, he was a failed businessman and, perhaps, a would-be suicide. (On the basis of his journals, some scholars doubt it.) That was when he claims a voice came to him saying he had no right to take his own life, because he had important work to do. "You do not belong to you," said the voice. "You belong to Universe." That's Universe...
...weekend of the summer solstice, my wife and I went to a wedding in New England. The weather was perfect - mid-70s, sunny, with an exquisite whisper of breeze. We stayed at a classic little inn... classic except for the air-conditioning blasting through the lobby. I asked the innkeeper why he felt the need to refrigerate when the weather outside was so amenable. "I wish we didn't. It's expensive. I'd love to keep the temperature about 75," he told me, "but the guests demand...