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...sin against baseball is different than how you treat your family or holding up a bank,” he said...
...Another press-corps sin now deemed unacceptable: pestering officials in public. During a mid-June news conference, a Beijing reporter embarrassed China's Executive Vice Minister of Health, Gao Qiang, by quoting back to him two of his contradictory statements and then asking which was true. "The Publicity Department said that's even worse than what foreign reporters do," says the editor of a party-run newspaper. Authorities are now reviewing all of the country's newspapers and magazines and may close down other transgressors. So much for the new era of openness that many viewed as the only welcome...
...bassist, Cliff Burton, died in a horrendous 1986 tour-bus accident. In 1991, seven years after This Is Spinal Tap, the band put out its own black album. A year later, lead singer James Hetfield was nearly immolated onstage by some bad pyro. Metallica has even committed the ultimate sin of heavy-metal piety: the classical album, with the sheepish help of some cellists in the San Francisco Symphony...
...profit. North American flew some U.S. troops during Gulf War II and the Afghanistan campaign, and it has also kept its civilian business going strong, especially on high-volume feeder flights to major international carriers like El Al. Allegiant Air, based in Las Vegas, specializes in discount flights to Sin City and has announced three new routes in the past two months: to Lansing, Mich.; Des Moines, Iowa; and Denver. Song, owned by Delta, is just off the ground, flying from New York City's J.F.K. to three points in Florida: West Palm Beach, Tampa and Orlando. Spirit has been...
...hated the smell of sweat. One summer day Uday stopped the butler and said, "What the hell is that smell?" Uday ordered five falaqa lashes on the butler's right foot and five in his right armpit. On another occasion, the butler says he received 160 falaqa for the sin of serving Uday's food on the wrong type of plate...