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Lead vocalist Mike Patton growls, screeches and roars his way through songs making not-so-subtle commentary on greed, complacency and selfishness. It's easy to laugh at the skewering of a thirtysomething character in the midtempo funk-rocker Midlife Crisis who derives her sense of security from her "pockets jingling" and is wrapped in "morbid self-attention...
...Leary's lineup stars with junior Rachel Lerner in the stroke seat, senior Co-Captain Kristin Stoddard in the seven seat, followed by sophomore Tilde Hajek, Harber sophomore Kathryn Patton, junior Sasha Foster, senior Wendy Svatek, senior Rachel Green in bow and senior Mimi Smith in the coxswain's seat...
Without Edwards, Coach Liz O'Leary's current lineup looks like this: junior Rachel Lerner at stroke, followed by senior and Acting Captain Kristi Stoddard, junior Meg Brooks, sophomore Tilde Hajek, junior Sasha Foster, senior Wendy Svatek, senior Rachel Greene and Kathryn Patton...
...crack. In July, German and Russian armored units collided in the Kursk salient in what remains the greatest tank battle in history: 6,000 tanks, 4,000 aircraft, 2 million men. The Germans lost almost all their eastern-front panzer divisions just as the Allies under Montgomery and George Patton were landing on Sicily. Germany intervened in Italy after Mussolini was overthrown on July 25, 1943. (On April 28, 1945, partisan forces would shoot him dead and string up his body by the heels in the Piazza Loreto in Milan.) It would take the Allies nearly a year to fight...
...Treasury Department, then headed by Baker, that B.C.C.I. secretly owned First American Bank, the largest bank in the nation's capital -- a critical piece of information that Treasury never pursued. Now TIME has learned that last May B.C.C.I. paid $1.3 million in fees to the Washington law firm of Patton, Boggs and Blow, a lobbying powerhouse that includes Ron Brown, chairman of the Democratic Party, among its partners...