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...were shuttled between the two stations by bus. Service was resumed around noon after technicians detonated the backpack, according to Pesaturo. Pesaturo, who said that terror threats were “very rare” in the T, urged all customers to report anything suspicious they see to the nearest MBTA authority. “The T is concerned about all individuals who act in an erratic fashion,” said Pesaturo. “This threat turned out to be harmless and we got things under control very quickly, but hopefully, anyone else who wants to make stupid...
Nigeria's presidential election was billed as the first civilian transfer of power since independence in 1960. That much was achieved with Monday's declaration that Umaru Yar'Adua will be the country's next President - ostensibly by a landslide 24.6 million votes to 6.6 million for his nearest rival. But it remains doubtful that this particular civilian transfer of power will end the political turmoil that has accompanied the election campaign...
...Shortly after arriving in Charlottesville, I was concerned that my seersucker blazer might not be enough to brave this event, heralded by my friend as the “preppiest event you will ever experience.” And so to complete my look, we went shopping at the nearest J.Crew. Twenty minutes later, I had a pair of seersucker shorts perfectly swatched to my thrift-store blazer.Over the course of the weekend, I got to see real college “fun”—the kind where frat boys are kings of the universe...
...middle of the pack for last week's vote (tabulated by phone calls and text messages for the week ending Mar. 31, 2007), on the Web he was the most searched for Idol contestant of the season, garnering more than twice the volume of searches than his nearest rival (not counting the continuing quests for racy photos of Antonella Barba, who is no longer in the competition...
...This extreme-rendition style went against the grain of the Hollywood '40s, when actors tended to whisper their threats and endearments, and the film noir aesthetic insured that movie sets had no more lighting than today's Baghdad after curfew. Not Hutton: she stuck her face into the nearest klieg light and shouted her lines and lyrics, cascaded all that talent and adrenaline...