Word: millenniums
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...only his pitching prowess that has earned his beloved status: While most Japanese players show all the flair of dour salarymen, Matsuzaka - with his spiky, sometimes dyed hair and cool self-confidence - more closely resembles the dropout hipsters who populated downbeat Tokyo at the turn of the millennium. But his 95-mph fastball and old-school work ethic and competitiveness have earned him the loyalty of traditional fans...
...luxury, Dern attests wholeheartedly that “it was an incredible experience.” The show, though, was hardly Dern’s first taste of fame. During its reign as Harvard’s only band dedicated to Han Solo and the crew of the Millennium Falcon, So Long Princess has acquired a modest following and is slated to represent Harvard in an upcoming battle of the bands competition in Boston. They perform about three times a month, and their biggest single, “Stormtroopers” (“I am a stormtrooper...
...Testament and was Christianity's first great evangelist, was somewhere beneath the current basilica. But around 1823, the year that a previous, ancient church on the location burned down, they lost track of it. Interest was rekindled four years ago when many Catholics streamed into Rome for Christianity's millennium and were disappointed to find no relic of the Saint. Two years later the archaelogists began digging, and this year they uncovered the sarcophagus and a protective slab inscribed in latin saying "To Paul, Apostle and Martyr." They were heartened by the presence of three holes in it (now stopped...
...meetings he had earlier that day. One was at a sushi bar in central London with Mario Scaramella, 36, an Italian lawyer and, like Litvinenko, a man drawn to the world of secret information and conspiracy theories. The second meeting was in the Pine Bar of the Millennium Hotel, near the U.S. embassy, with a group of Russian businessmen with whom Litvinenko was apparently hatching business ventures in Britain. "Alexander said both [meetings] were suspicious, and one was probably innocent," says Goldfarb...
...Polonium was later found in the embassy room, and in lots of other places Lugovoy had visited: on planes he had flown between Moscow and London in October; in five rooms at the Sheraton Park Lane hotel, where he had stayed; and in a fourth-floor room at the Millennium Hotel he is said to have used on the day Litvinenko was poisoned. Finding polonium in a hotel Lugovoy had used on a previous trip to London prompted British authorities to wonder if there might have been an earlier, failed murder attempt. A senior British security official thought the sprawl...