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...Reynolds, the all-night radio host, to say that Billy Joel and the James Brown horn section had showed up at his birthday party. He was just kidding, or wishing. But who needed them when two legends were filling that tiny stage? A living legend, Les Paul, and the precious memory of his partner. He closed the first set that night with the plaintive ballad 'Just One More Chance.' He was playing it, he said, 'in remembrance of my partner Mary...
...their own way, personalized their relationship with European and Russian leaders to Washington's advantage. But Europe in the Reagan years was mostly governed by conservatives and lived under the shadow of the Soviet military. Post-Cold War Europe is mostly run by center-left governments that have precious little in common with Bush's conservativism. Moreover, the maturing European Union is beginning to claim an increasingly important diplomatic role for itself, in which deference to the United States is no longer automatic...
...Moon) on June 19, 2000, day 58 of her abduction: "I hate them. I hate them a thousand times. I hate them for what they are doing to us ... to our families ... our parents ... for everything they have taken away from us. I hate them because time is so precious. I hate them for the flies that swarm all over us. I hate them because they have taken our freedom. I hate them because they are doing all this in the name of God. I pray that God will forgive them because I cannot...
...heading for the resort kitchen when they were called back by their leader. "Enough, enough, we have to go," he shouted, according to Cervantes, who watched them leave. Things only got worse on the return. The rebels discovered they didn't have enough fuel and had to beach their precious speedboat on the island of Cagayan and commandeer a sluggish fishing boat for the remaining...
...Naqushbandi earned Harvard the first point of the match, recovering to win 9-7 at third doubles to give the Crimson the doubles point. Ghazal and Bajin easily won their match at first doubles, 8-3, but McGinty and Naqushbandi knew their match would decide which team earned the precious doubles point after juniors Andrea Magyera and Fleur Broughton could not hold on at second doubles, dropping their match...