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...this year's Glastonbury music festival in the U.K., for example, well-heeled attendees paid more than $10,000 each to stay in luxury tented accommodation - a far cry from the event's countercultural origins. And it seems that no large gathering - from Japan's Summer Sonic to Scotland's T in the Park - is without its gaudy glut of sponsors' logos. But for those who rail against the commodification of culture, there's always Burning Man (burningman.com). Now in its 19th year, this arts festival in the Nevada desert remains inexplicably free of meddling Loh and Behold Avant-garde...
London under siege in World War II is Lawton's prime subject, brilliantly evoked even when Troy, now a Scotland Yard chief superintendent, sets off in pursuit of a cop killer in 1959. In Flesh Wounds, you can feel the gritty pain of a city that has barely begun to rebuild from the ruins of the blitz, as Troy finds his trail winding backward to bloody events in the grim winter...
...DeLay, Two associates who did work for DeLay's political action committee have been indicted for money laundering and accepting illegal contributions in a Texas investigation that is continuing. And while there isn't yet a House ethics committee investigation of DeLay's acceptance of a trip to Scotland allegedly financed by Abramoff and as well as other interactions between the two, legal sources say that Abramoff's alter ego Scanlon is cooperating to at least some degree with prosecutors in a separate, Washington-based federal probe of the lobbyist's dealings with Indian tribes and with elected officials. That...
...didn't take long. The promise by the G-8 leaders meeting in Scotland early last month to "combat world poverty and save and improve human life" had barely been made when the images of starving Africans filled our television screens. In Niger some 2.5 million people face starvation, according to aid agencies and the United Nations World Food Program (wfp). Badly malnourished children are dying and thousands more are at risk. How can this be happening again? The depressing answer: all too easily. The G-8 pledges of debt relief and a doubling of aid were never going...
DIED. ROBIN COOK, 59, former British Foreign Secretary who resigned from Prime Minister Tony Blair's Cabinet in 2003 to protest the war in Iraq; after collapsing during a mountain hike; in Inverness, Scotland. Known for his debating skills and scandalous divorce, Cook declined to run against Blair for Labour Party leader in the '90s, declaring, "I am not good-looking enough...