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Last year’s event saw a pair of freak accidents disrupt an otherwise routine regatta. One man was sent to the hospital when eight-person shell hit him, penetrating his torso. In another incident, in 1996, boats from George Washington University and Brown University collided at full speed...
...blue guy worked at the amusement park too, in a freak show, and as a young boy Eddie inadvertently caused an auto accident that killed him. "There are five people you meet in heaven," the Blue Man explains. "Each of us was in your life for a reason. You may not have known the reason at the time, and that is what heaven is for. For understanding your life on earth." His theme, and Albom's, is the interconnectedness of all our lives, and the impossibility of knowing the consequences of our actions in the grand scheme of things...
...assembled a 25-man task force to pursue these obscenity cases. But a prosecutor can have all the fantasies he wants to about prosecuting pornography. You’ve got to have a consensus of 12 jurors or you’re not getting anywhere. Ashcroft is a Jesus freak from the Bible belt, and I’m sure he thinks he’s committed to ridding the world of all the filth he can. He may wake up at some point and realize that community standards have changed since he grew up in Missouri. California people aren?...
...star and Café Costes was taking in five times as much money as it had before his makeover. The brothers have been cloning versions of Café Costes ever since. The formula that the Costes have applied is hands-off, within limits. Jean-Louis is a detail freak who leaves nothing to chance. "I'm not much on management, but I'm a positive nut about marketing," he says. "I'll happily leave management to the individuals who run each place, but marketing is something else again." The Costes empire's crown jewel is the Hôtel Costes...
...just arrived from Amazon. I hit the play button and heard the first line of the first song: "This is London/ Not Antarctica/ So why don't the tubes run all night?/ You are my girlfriend/ Not Molly Ringwald/ So why won't you stay here tonight?" After my freak-out subsided, I realized it was a perfect Hefner moment. Through five albums starting in the late '90s, the band constantly blurred the lines between life and art - with songs about love-wrecked, angry misfits living in rented outer London bedsits - and produced some of the funniest, most tender independent...