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...gave him a present: his 100 favorite Motown songs. "I said, 'But we have hundreds of copies!'" Bandier recalls. "He said, 'This is in a different place--on my hard drive.' It was scary." Bandier immediately convened a war council to figure out how to protect EMI's precious song catalog, which ranges from Judy Garland to Norah Jones. "People did not think it was real in the beginning," he says. "It's as real...
...still, we’re all able to enjoy these precious moments of college while still being responsible students. If you want proof of how much we’re going to miss these years, just look at Iowa State basketball coach Larry Eustachy, who was photographed kissing female students with a beer in his hand at a frat party at the ripe old age of 47. Eustachy’s behavior was disturbing, pathetic and outright wrong—let’s not have any Harvard kids revealing the repressed party animal inside 25 years from...
With the majority of his days immersed in sound, he spends much of his precious free time in “meditation and prayer...
...week as soldiers ended it as cops, trying to distinguish the bad from the worse. They did foil a bank robbery, recovering $3.68 million in American hundred-dollar bills from the thieves' car. But the ransacking of Iraq's national museum, home to some of the world's most precious antiquities, left a wound in the country's heart. General Tommy Franks took his victory lap through Baghdad, passing out cigars to his commanders and brushing off a legion of armchair generals who had cast doubt on his plan. Seven rescued prisoners of war were on their way home. Iraqis...
...missing; and on that score the news is bad, though perhaps not quite as horrifying as the reports from Baghdad had first suggested. One reason is that the Iraqi antiquities authorities took steps to keep some artifacts safe. For starters, they had long since gathered some of the most precious items from regional museums, figuring they would be easier to protect in Baghdad. They had also moved many items from the Iraq Museum into vaults at Iraq's national bank. The bank was looted as well, but it's not clear yet whether thieves got into these particular vaults...