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...friends with Bono or Madonna, common wisdom dictates that the President of the United States is still the man (or woman) who can champion issues to greatest effect. If you want to change the world, we’re told, pack your bags and head toward the swamp-land of Washington...
...expanding his ice plant even at a loss, neither waiting for government help nor cowering before al-Qaeda. Lobbying the Marines at Friday's meeting to clear a road alongside his ice plant connecting him to the adjacent district of Shuhada, Idham said he is snatching up land and industrial facilities at bargain prices from owners who can no longer wait for the government compensation. "I know Fallujah will be back," he said. "It will prosper even better than it used to. Just wait...
Length in feet of a Chinese wedding-dress train (below); the bride had hoped to land a place in the Guinness World Records book...
...back on land later on Monday, it was all seriousness. Gudim and several of his friends had been evacuated from their homes in Rancho Santa Fe. They moved to Del Mar, where they "chilled" at the apartment of Samuels and his roommates Jeff Stumm and Gordon Cunliffe, both 23. But the friends wanted to check up on the homes of their friends and neighbors. So they decided to head back...
...Templars were a creature of the Crusades, when various Christian forces sailed from Europe to fight the resident Muslims for control of the biblical Holy Land. After the first Crusaders took Jerusalem in 1096, European pilgrims began streaming into the city, and 23 years later, two veterans of the Crusade founded an order of monastic knights to protect the travelers. They were allotted a headquarters in Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque, viewed by Jews and many Christians as the site of the Temple of Solomon - hence the new group's name. Initially modest (its coat of arms was two knights...