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...viewing the northern lights--especially on New Year's Eve. In Reykjavík, Icelanders gather around dozens of massive bonfires to sing traditional folk songs accompanied, according to local legend, by trolls, fairies and elves. (Iceland's Tourist Board claims that 80% of Icelanders believe in little beings.) At midnight the city explodes in a massive fireworks display. The dancing and partying that follow last until the sun comes up, which in Iceland is at about lunchtime...
...crying out for help as he was driven away in a military vehicle. According to the judgment of Magistrate Ajmal Gulab Khan, "He was on the floor of the van and bystanders could hear swearing, hitting with rifle butts and kicking at the back of the tray." Around midnight, his hideously injured body was delivered to the morgue...
...could make out of his renewed interest in comics. One year later he was assistant editing at “Disney Adventures” magazine, and one more year landed him at Vertigo. “I needed to make decision either to edit, and draw from nine to midnight when I got home, or draw full-time,” Chiang recalls. He chose the latter, which meant quitting his editorial job, moving in with his parents, and scraping for work as a full-time artist at DC. He kept up with his former colleagues there, and gradually...
...Hadfield and Ryan A. Petersen, saw their supporters out in force at the Science Center, sporting bright t-shirts and enormous posters. Campaigners faced off directly and tried to out-shout one another. Supporters of Ali A. Zaidi ’08 began postering early yesterday morning, following a midnight kickoff event that drew a crowd of over 50 to the Lowell House Junior Common Room. Zaidi spent a slice of the $400 the Undergraduate Council (UC) allots per presidential ticket to buy two 10-pound pies from Unique Pizza and Subs to feed his flock...
...HALL, director of the Boise, Idaho, parks department, on firing two temporary employees at the city's ice rink after they made a midnight fast-food run in a pair of Zambonis, traveling 1.5 miles in the $75,000 vehicles, whose top speed is 5 m.p.h...