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...Tours of the Lincoln home are free, but you need a ticket from the nearby visitor's center. The interior is wonderfully accurate, thanks to sketches of the family home prepared in 1860 for magazine readers eager to know more about their new president. In fact, much of the furniture is authentic - you can see the chairs Lincoln sat in, the desk he wrote on, the stove he stoked in winter. Mary used a chamberpot; Abe preferred the outhouse. (See pictures of how people are cashing in on Barack Obama around the world...
...Interior, born Erick Lee Purkhiser, started the Cramps with his wife, guitarist Poison Ivy Rorschach, in 1976. From the beginning, they were more an act than a band, their fusion of surf music, punk and rockabilly (psychobilly, as it was known) sounding better in theory than in sloppy 3-min. bursts...
...onstage, the Cramps were spectacular. Interior could stoke a crowd with writhing and pogo-ing that made Iggy Pop look like a folksinger, and when he opened his mouth to deadpan songs like "I Was a Teenage Werewolf," he could make the crowd laugh too. Perhaps the Cramps' most perfect performance was a 1978 concert at the Napa State Mental Hospital in California. "Somebody told me you people are crazy," Lux screamed from the stage, "but I'm not so sure about that...
...Cramps' lineup morphed continuously over the years, but Interior and Rorschach were constants in music and in life. They remained happily married for 37 years...
...Some part of the conspiracy has taken place in Pakistan," Interior Ministry chief Rehman Malik told reporters in Islamabad on Thursday, marking a significant climbdown for the government. Less than two weeks ago, one of Pakistan's most senior diplomats had claimed the opposite. Pakistani officials attribute the change to information turned up by the Federal Investigation Agency, Pakistan's equivalent of the FBI. Drawing on leads furnished last month by New Delhi, Malik laid out a narrative of events that largely concurs with the Indian version. (See pictures of Mumbai in recovery...