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...Orleans you are hanging with the global rock star Bono at the Super Bowl, a nonstop party. I love Keynesians as much as the 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...
...guests are welcome to join. While feathers and sequins are not out of place, the party outfit is best kept to a minimum. Since there are at times 5,000 heaving bodies heating up the main dance floor, false eyelashes don't stand a chance. One year, as the sky grew lighter and sweat-soaked dancers with platform shoes in hand and wigs askew stumbled from the hall, one fellow dressed in a tutu made out of plush koala bears attracted particular attention. He said he was straight. He had decided to do something crazy for once, and Mardi Gras...
...gang on Basilan holding two Americans and one Filipino hostage. The gang once had ties to al-Qaeda, notably through Ramzi Yousef, who tried destroying the World Trade Center in February 1993 and two years later planned the Manila-based Bojinka Plot to blow 11 airliners out of the sky over the Pacific. Since then, Abu Sayyaf's links have atrophied. At this point, cracking down on Abu Sayyaf, as beneficial as it will be to local security, will likely have little impact on eradicating global terrorism...
...huge for us," Powers kept saying after soaring 18-ft. off the top of the pipe - major amplitude, dude - which earned him 46 out of 50 possible points on the first of his two final runs. The rest of his competitors spent the day falling out of the sky like shot ducks as they sailed and failed to overtake...
...Texas, Bush allies claimed Bush never fully trusted Lay, and they portrayed Lay as a classic cowboy type--all hat and no cattle--a braggart who pretended to enjoy better access to Bush than he really had. "Lay reminds me of one of those boys who shoots in the sky and claims he hit everything that falls," says Mark Stiles, a Democrat and former state legislator who was close to Bush. "Lay was just a glad-hander...