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...Congress's�holiday�for�Memorial�Day 2000, and majority whip Tom DeLay's staff thought the boss and two top aides deserved a respite from the arduous hours they had been putting in doing the people's business. They wanted to make sure DeLay's little delegation had the finest of everything on its weeklong trip to Britain--from lodgings at the Four Seasons Hotel in London to dinners at the poshest restaurants with the most interesting people, right down to the best tickets for The Lion King--at the time, one of the hottest shows playing on the West...
...from a Rome street one sunny day last summer and turned up several weeks later as a defector in CIA hands. Identified initially as the fifth-highest official in the KGB, Yurchenko was touted as the most important catch in decades and a striking example of how Moscow's finest have grown disillusioned with the Soviet system. If CIA officials were to be believed, Yurchenko's defection had jolted the Kremlin...
...thriving agricultural center of whitewashed, tile-roofed homes and pastel colonial churches, the town had taken little part in the more turbulent eras of modern Colombian history. The region's wealth is based on cotton and rice farming. The surrounding Lagunilla River canyon contains some of the country's finest agricultural land...
...prepared for the role by riding along with L.A.’s finest, soliciting tips on how to play a “hard-nosed, controlling” officer “who’s bitter, and some of that bitterness comes out sideways on the job.” According to Dillon, the veteran police officer he tagged along with described brutal police officers as a relatively commonplace occurrence in the force—kicking feet out, twisting fingers together...
...li’l music world is pretty much dominated by this band from Wesleyan called The Management. Over spring break I found this rare, limited-edition INXS album that has a 3-D pop-up of the band in it! The songs aren’t their finest, but some day I could probably retire young after selling it on eBay. Also, I saw Cody ChesnuTT this summer and still haven’t recovered. Same with Kraftwerk. They are kind of who I aspire to be like in my Germanic robot future life. Some other stuff: Dave...