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...days and weeks following Jackson’s passing, the media divided airtime between grimly recapping the murky details of his personal life and reverently exalting his artistic genius, which was to have been showcased in a series of sold-out London concerts. The ill-fated tour, billed as “the final curtain call” by Jackson himself, is now the subject of a documentary entitled “This Is It.” Directed by Kenny Ortega, Jackson’s creative partner, the film provides an unusually pared-down view of the performer...
...recalling the incident. "When I saw that he had a knife, I tried to get it off him. He continued stabbing my wife even when she was lying on the ground." Okaz said their son was meant to be in kindergarten on the day of the attack but was ill. "Marwa wanted to take him to the doctor after the hearing. The little boy misses her, and he's suffering a lot," Okaz testified. (See TIME's pictures of the Muslim world...
...Macon County, Ill., the County Health Department has been forced to limit their first doses of the vaccine to health-care workers and emergency-services personnel and children ages 4 to 18. Out of the 70,000 doses the county requested, they only received 5,400. "Since we got such a short supply right now we wanted to give [the vaccine to] the group that has been most affected, and because this is a vaccine that can be used for children, we wanted to make sure and get the vaccine to the children while we could," says Brandi Binkley, director...
...Show began a short while after the one-year anniversary of Georgia's ill-fated war with Russia. A report by the European Union blaming both Russia and Georgia for the conflict was about to be released, but word had already leaked that the report would accuse Georgia of firing the first shots. The war all but ended Saakashvili's dreams of unifying Georgia with the breakaway republics of South Ossetia and Abkhazia - nearly a fifth of its territory - and the report could possibly damage his other great project: convincing the West that Georgia is a reliable military and economic...
...Illinois in a generation, he had charisma, connections, deep coffers and a Horatio Alger-type bio. "You have to remember, a lot of people thought that Rod Blagojevich had a very good shot at becoming President of the United States," says Mike Jacobs, a state senator from Rock Island, Ill., and a former friend. "I know that sounds comical today...