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...When Jackson felt weak toward the end of the trial, what did family friend and nutritionist Dick Gregory recommend to help him rid his body of toxins...
...have already rid my walls of all posters and stripped my shelves of all but the essentials to prepare for the June 10 move-out. Away from the trash pile lie three frames given to me by a Crimson mentor as a tribute to my two years of roving. They are the few items I’ve decided to keep for my apartment in New York next year. Each frame features one roving reporter-style question about me, answered by five witty Crimson friends: “In a wrestling match between Jeni and Summers, who would...
...April 6, 1994, a plane carrying the President of Rwanda was shot down— setting off a collapse of the nascent Rwandan government. Extremist Hutus killed the Prime Minister and the 10 Belgian troops who were protecting her, and a campaign began to rid the country of Tutsi...
...rest of his life. Seven weeks after his meeting in Damascus, he resigned. Almost four months after that, he was dead, assassinated on Valentine's Day in rebuilt downtown Beirut, the jewel of his political achievements, as he prepared to launch a bid to reclaim power and rid Lebanon of Syrian influence. In death, Hariri managed to obtain the prize he so desperately sought in the final months of his life. After his assassination a million Lebanese poured into the streets, galvanizing international opinion against Damascus and forcing the withdrawal of Syrian troops and some of the intelligence operatives...
...Montanan, I found it inspiring to read Kirn's Essay. Yes, it's true, we pulled up our bootstraps and elected a Democratic Governor, got rid of saloon smoke, said "Git" to toxic-mining lobbyists and decided that drinking when driving just isn't very American after all. But lest anyone think we're going soft on personal freedoms, Montanans oppose the Patriot Act. We can smell a rat a mile away, and we don't take kindly to the government sneaking things past our good ole red-white-and-blue U.S. Constitution...