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Last night’s performance was opened by two Harvard cheerleaders and an A&E Biography-inspired video—hosted by Pfoho Resident Tutor Rick Bell and featuring a cameo by Annenberg icon Domna Antoniou...
Iraqi Minister of Information Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf followed a simple code: When life hands you lemons, insist that, despite the heinous lies of the infidels, they are in fact lemonade. In a war that produced no Scud Stud, al-Sahhaf emerged as a strange sort of cult icon, appearing daily before a bank of microphones in Baghdad to bark, "There are no American infidels in Baghdad. Never!" and "God will roast their stomachs in hell at the hands of Iraqis...
...NETHERLANDS Supporters of slain politician Pim Fortuyn expressed outrage at the 18-year jail sentence imposed on his assassin, Volkert van der Graaf; prosecutors said they would appeal for a life term. An outspoken, right-wing gay man who wanted to restrict immigration, Fortuyn has in death become an icon of modern Dutch life. Van der Graaf, who admitted shooting Fortuyn last May, might only serve 12 years. Political Crime Wave RUSSIA Sergei Yushenkov, a leading liberal Duma Deputy and critic of President Vladimir Putin, was shot to death as he was entering his Moscow apartment block, hours after registering...
DIED. LESLIE CHEUNG, 46, smoldering, pansexual icon of Chinese films and music; a suicide, having jumped from a hotel terrace; in Hong Kong. Though best known to American audiences as the tragic artist in Farewell My Concubine, he also played the soft naif (A Better Tomorrow), the wily warrior (The Bride with White Hair) and the demon romancer (Happy Together). Early death has assured his standing as the great tragic male diva of the late 20th century...
Avery lauded the 75 year-old, four-foot-seven cultural icon for being one of People magazine’s “Most Interesting People of the Century” and also bestowed upon her the title of “Harvard’s favorite sex therapist...