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...talked his way into a stand-up gig at a comedy club in Pasadena, Calif. "My thing was the 50-year-old mouth on the 10-year-old body," LaBeouf says. He took to the stage in overalls, with a bowl haircut, and "the first words out of my mouth would be 'Listen, assholes,'" he says. "Sometimes I would bomb. I'd talk about personal stuff and instead of laughing, people would look at me like, 'Oh, man, I'm so sorry.'" The potty-mouthed-preteen act only took him so far, so at age 11 LaBeouf found an agent...
Coming from a talented family, Jordanian Mohammed Asha had to be special to stand out. Of the eight other siblings who grew up with Asha in Amman, two also became doctors. Another qualified as an engineer. But Mohammed, now 26, seemed particularly gifted. As a youngster in the mid-'90s, he tried out for a spot in a local school for gifted kids, and got in. Studying medicine at the University of Jordan, his grades were exceptional. With such a strong track record, Asha won a scholarship to study neurology at University of Birmingham in central England...
...cell phones and posted on several Arabic websites shows the "honor killing" of Dua Khalil Aswad, a teen-age girl from the minority Yazidi faith who defied her family and married a Muslim. She is seen being kicked and stoned by a group of men, while uniformed Iraqi policemen stand by. One man picks up a large boulder and drops it on her head. Terrified that she may meet Aswad's fate but determined to stick by al-Hilli, Majid says her best hope is that they will both be able to emigrate to someplace beyond the reach...
...task force on Lockerbie. If Megrahi now goes free, it raises new questions about how efficiently American investigators can work with local authorities elsewhere to pursue terrorist suspects to all corners of the globe. To a greater extent than in the U.K., Americans involved in the case stand behind the conviction. "I am convinced of Mr. Megrahi's guilt," says Marquise. "It would have been great to have DNA, to have 10 eyewitnesses. Unfortunately, there's no such thing as a perfect case," An FBI spokesman in Washington says the Bureau will not comment on the SCCRC report...
...actors wonderfully portrayed the role, the division was unnecessary and confusing. The choice ruined the continuity of the verses, some of which are the most famous in the play, because it arbitrarily divided the lines between the two. The change seemed superfluous and distracting: A Puck divided cannot stand...