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...pause, in my fogeyish what?s-the-matter-with-kids-today rant, to wonder why they should be any more tolerant of the music I loved than I am of the music they love. Then I put aside doubt and snarl: because mine?s better! And if I remind myself that songs of the 60s are as distant from today?s kids as songs of the teens and 20s were to me... well, I have an answer for that, too. I liked those old songs! It?s simple courtesy for them to give a tolerant listen to the music...
Initially, she somewhat bashfully wore her handiwork around Harvard Square, expecting to attract only embarrassing stares. Instead, she has gotten droves of national media recognition, tickets to the Democratic National Convention and an entrepreneurial gold mine...
...somewhere else. Such was the case with Gormley himself, who had pretty much settled on Lake Deborah to the west before, at the last minute, Lake Ballard's unique conical-shaped hill caught his eye. Chance intervened, too, with Baltimore-born prospector Leslie Robert Menzie. While surveying a potential mine site near Ninety Mile in 1894 - two years after Bayley and Ford struck gold in Coolgardie, 150 km to the south - he and his party ran out of water. "We followed the line of the reef to the top of the rise, nuggets and quartz lay everywhere," he reportedly said...
...religion is also terrible. These people whose faces I now watch in awe—I can't help thinking that their ancestors confined mine to squalid, unlivable ghettos, or watched in silence as the cattle cars rolled out towards Auschwitz. And there's no need to list the places in today's world where people continue to kill in the name...
...three-year jail sentence. The trial was adjourned until September. Living Dangerously CHECHNYA In an escalation of ongoing violence, at least 20 pro-Moscow Chechen security forces and Russian soldiers died across the province in fighting that reportedly left several dozen militants dead. Acting President Sergei Abramov survived a mine attack on his motorcade in Grozny, but 12 members of the presidential security service were later abducted by the rebels. School Inferno INDIA Police arrested five people in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, including the owner of a private school, on suspicion of negligence after at least 88 children...