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EXPLOITED JANITOR: (Dickensian, in a cockney accent) Please sir, may I have some more...
...next guy, but New Orleans and U2 is tough to beat. As the band members made their way from the field to their sky box following their half-time performance, I talked football with Paul McCartney, who sang along loudly to Beatles songs played on the stadium p.a. Sir Paul high-fived me when, as he put it, "the Patriots ran that interference all the way back for a touchdown!" After the game I joined U2 and Ashley Judd for dinner in the French Quarter and spent much of the meal mumbling, "I am not cool enough for this room...
...aftermath. But U.S. citizens, unlike subjects of the Commonwealth, don't kneel before the monarch, and so Rudy stayed upright. Giuliani received a silver cross and a star pin, but despite being compared to Winston Churchill during the blitz, he is not entitled to affix an official "Sir" before his name. Later he and his companion JUDITH NATHAN took in the sights and met Prime Minister Tony Blair. Visiting with members of Parliament, Giuliani offered some tips on how to combat London's rising crime rate. With few squeegee men in London, it's going to be tough...
ARRAIGNED. JOHN WALKER LINDH, 21, American Taliban accused of aiding al-Qaeda and conspiring to kill Americans; in federal court in Alexandria, Va. Lindh pleaded, "Not guilty, sir," as the family of CIA officer Johnny (Mike) Spann--killed at the prison where Lindh was captured--watched. Lindh faces life imprisonment if convicted...
...oldest possession on display was a 17th-century edition of Sir Thomas North’s 1579 translation of Plutarch’s Lives given to Matthiessen...