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...onetime B-movie actress Lana Clarkson was shot to death in Spector's 33-room estate, which he dubbed "the Castle." The pair had met for the first time earlier that night at L.A.'s House of Blues, where she had been working. Over the decades, Spector had built up a reputation for being loose with guns, having pointed them at John Lennon, Leonard Cohen, one of the Ramones and several romantic interests...
...Phil, if you're going to kill me, kill me. But don't f___ with me ears. I need them." - John Lennon, after Spector shot one of his many pistols into the ceiling of a studio bathroom after having tied up a drunken, raving Lennon (Vanity Fair, June...
...price-conscious consumers in Europe and the U.S., that may augur a shot of good news. Consider the example of cocoa. Futures prices for the crop have tumbled in recent weeks amid signs of dwindling demand for chocolate products in mature markets. The European Cocoa Association said last month that grinding - the process that turns the crop into cocoa butter or powder and a handy proxy for demand - by its members fell 11% in the first quarter of this year. Grinding across the U.S., Canada and Mexico fell by slightly more in the same period. That's prompted some manufacturers...
When Benno Ohnesorg was shot on June 2, 1967, by a policeman in West Berlin during a demonstration against the Shah of Iran, the young German student became a martyr for a generation of left-wing activists. The killing triggered the radicalization of the mass protest movement in West Germany, which directed its anger against the police, the government and the conservative establishment. The poignant image of a woman cradling Ohnesorg's head as he lay dying on the ground became etched in Germans' minds. But now it has emerged that the police officer who pulled the trigger was actually...
...researchers who unearthed the new documents say there was no evidence in the files to suggest that Kurras was acting on direct Stasi orders to kill Ohnesorg. But the discovery that it was a Stasi spy who shot him has raised new questions about the history of the student movement. Prime among them: how might the student protest movement have developed if Germans had known at the time that Kurras was in the pay of the East German secret police? The question is all the more sensitive since that movement spawned the Red Army Faction, postwar Europe's most deadly...