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...spieler who could mesmerize his audience for two hours plus ? a great gig. (There was to be another series of Village concerts in November, canceled after pressure from city authorities.) I also followed the installments of his autobiography that Hugh Hefner (like Krassner and Steve Allen, a prime Bruce stalwart) published in Playboy. It was a good time to be a Lenny fan. But not to be Lenny...
...identified him as Egyptian-born Abu Ayyub al-Masri, though jihadis said his name is Abu Hamza al-Muhajer. (A U.S. intelligence official said the man's real identity is not certain.) Whatever his name, he is said to be an Afghanistan-trained explosives expert who is a longtime stalwart of al-Qaeda in Iraq...
...Farrar implemented an in-season lifting program to improve the players’ strength and ultimately, performance. “The in-season lifting was a sign he is taking this program to the next level,” Byrd said. In the pool, Garcia was a stalwart on both the offensive and defensive ends. Among his many highlights, the junior driver assisted on all five goals in a 5-2 win over Iona near the end of the regular season and led the Crimson with three goals against the Gaels in the final game of the year...
...hold on Sicily. "Patronage is illegality," she said. "The Mafia's relationship with the economic and political world has slowed development, and impoverished Sicily." Borsellino says her opponent's decision to run despite the Mafia charges "sends a very bad message" to Sicilians. Cuffaro, a longtime Christian Democrat party stalwart, has tried to steer debate away from the Mafia. "Borsellino is an upstanding person," he says. "But she's there because she's a symbol, and Sicilians won't vote for someone who is just a symbol." In last month's national elections, won narrowly by the center-left...
...life, high-stakes death battle over and over--the whole ordeal, nonstop, in takes lasting from 20 to 55 min., as the reconstructed Boeing 757 would wobble and shudder, and the camera crew followed the action like nosy paparazzi. Says Cheyenne Jackson, who plays Mark Bingham, one of the stalwart passengers: "We spent so many hours throwing our trays around and bleeding and screaming and crying and praying, and throwing up and peeing ourselves, and trying to imagine every possibility of what these people were going through. It was an environment where we could go to these deep, dark places...