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Indeed, Bruguiere has over the years become a recognizable icon in the world of international counter-terrorism: the dapper, pipe-smoking, sleuth whose doggedness and efficiency hunting terror masterminds forced him to pack a Magnum to fend off attacks on his own life. (In recent years, he's swapped the gun for round-the-clock bodyguards, although the nickname it earned him, "The Sheriff," has stuck.) He was known as a hands-on investigator who would literally picked through wreckage of a downed airliner, or rent a boat to enter Libya to investigate the agents he accused of blowing...
...three vindicated student-athletes at the center of the case, the announcement marked the end of a 13-month saga, which began in March of 2006, when they were accused of raping a stripper at a party held by their lacrosse team. The accuser, a stripper named Crystal Magnum who had been hired to perform at the party, alleged that she had been hung upside down and raped by the three young...
...MAGNUM P.I.'S FERRARI 308 AND THE A-TEAM'S GMC VAN Their glory days as mustache-delivery system and crack-commando conveyance behind them, these '80s alpha sleds now gather dust on the Universal Studios back lot, posing for tourist photos...
...submitting an entry. “I have a lot of ideas. It’s easy to tell which ones are bad, but it’s hard to know if any are good.” Seitz would not reveal much about the progress of his magnum opus, but he said he noticed a trend in his ideas. “I find myself straying toward something really morbid,” he says. “I’ll probably end up painting some sort of death.” The stories were due before Thanksgiving...
...exceptionally private Pynchon, whose brilliant post-modern novels include V, The Crying of Lot 49 and the magnum opus Gravity's Rainbow, hasn't released a new book since 1997's Mason & Dixon. Only a handful of photos exist of the author, 69, mainly from his school days and the most recent a dodgy paparazzi-type shot in 1998. A CNN crew had filmed him the previous year, but the news network decided not to identify him after Pynchon, who reportedly lives in New York, called to complain. "Let me be unambiguous," he told the news channel. "I prefer...