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...gave me a look that only a mother could give a child.' U.S. PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH, on Queen Elizabeth II's reaction to his verbal slip: "You helped our nation celebrate its Bicentennial...
...instrumental rendition of Killing Me Softly. But despite this early success, he had no thoughts of becoming a professional musician until lack of money stymied his desire to read English literature at university. At a loose end, and with the family having moved to Kuala Lumpur, he persuaded his mother to let him earn a few ringgits by playing a couple of hours a night at a bar where one of the older Ponnudorai boys was a regular. "That was 1979," Ponnudorai says. "I walked into that bar and I haven't walked out of a bar since...
...Mother Nature sent torrential rains...
...stepped behind the camera: Shelly was pregnant when she started writing The Waitress. "It's almost a sacrilege to say becoming a mother is scary," she said in the production notes. "I wanted to write a movie about those fears and give them a voice...
...brutally broken up by the police. NGOs get shut down, while the state launches criminal probes into their leaders. The cowed media's controls grow ever harsher. And, just as 42 years ago, the Kremlin propaganda invokes the specter of an external enemy and its internal agents threatening Mother Russia. The continuing hysteria against "the desecration" of the Soviet memorial in Estonia (which in reality has been moved to a military cemetery and reopened with full military and state honors) now extends into warning signals to Poland which plans to move several hundred Communist-era memorials, including Soviet ones. Indeed...