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...revenge. "About 250 of them surrounded the house," recalls his brother, Bisseswar Yadav. "They came into the house and tied all the adults' hands. They demanded to know where the guns were and, when we didn't tell them, they began to kick us and beat us with iron rods and sticks. While some of them began looting the house, two men put a wooden box under my brother's legs. As two men held him down, two others beat his legs, up and down with rods and sticks until they broke them over the edge. Then they...
...artistic compromises. Zaw Win Htut owns a cherry red Chevy Impala and has enough money to be considering sending his daughter to an Australian boarding school. These are the fruits of 20 years of performing, again and again, watered-down Burmese covers of rock relics by the Eagles, Rod Stewart and the Beatles...
Last year the Red Sox were forced to make do with a substandard selection of mediocre rookies and arm-weary veterans. Joe Kerrigan and his staff coaxed as much as they could from the likes of Brett Saberhagen, Rod Beck and Tomo Okha—but such a staff could clearly never be expected to win a World Series. The injury to Pedro Martinez was, of course, vital, but even before he went down the staff looked decidedly thin. His injury was merely a convenient peg for a slide that would have doubtless occurred at some point with a patchy...
...space, this list would go on almost indefinitely. Little Richard, Jon Bon Jovi, Frank Sinatra, Garth Brooks, Cher, Leonard Bernstein, Rod Stewart and Robbie Williams have all sung The King’s high praises. Apparently even Britney Spears has been moved: “I think Elvis is the sexiest man to ever walk the earth. I love...
...waiter) plays host to four colleagues for a private dinner chat about work, other actors and the pitfalls of fame (e.g., the ugly fan who says, "Everybody tells me I look just like you!"). The guest list mingles affable cutups like Kevin Pollak with volatile screen lions like Rod Steiger, who seems ready to pop somebody. It's self-involved and amusing--and often both at once...