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...Tall, slim and stern-faced, Tiazy seeks out Jim Peter, the chairman of the local Crime Prevention Committee, a grassroots initiative of ramsi. "We work very closely with the community," says Tiazy, who spends time in the area's outer islands educating people about ways to head off crime. "In the past we used informers to get information. Now we rely on these bodies." As the local explosives expert, Tiazy is also responsible for dealing with the torpedoes and other old ordnance that islanders still occasionally stumble upon 60 years after the end of World War II in the Pacific...
...Somehow, I?m not amazed that Howard Stern is on your list...
What is it exactly that we see in Grant Wood's stern old farmer and the woman at his side with her strange, sidelong glance? Is this an image of enduring Midwestern probity or a satire of small-town small-mindedness? Wood, who recruited his 30-year-old sister and his 62-year-old dentist to pose for him, preferred to insist that his interest was just painterly. This book traces the impact and changing meaning of the iconic image through its 75-year history...
...here in the frozen North, Live 8’s reception has been frigid. At the June 21 press conference held to announce the concert’s Canadian host, Geldof issued a stern admonition to Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin on the subject of foreign aid; unless, like a number of European countries, he commits to a 0.7 percent of GDP foreign aid contribution by 2015, Martin should stay home...
...Times can be a contentious family, and Frankel has proved he can play good daddy or stern father. In his five years as Washington bureau chief, a position he finally did get in 1968, "Max was the most humane editor," recalls one Pulitzer prizewinner who worked for him. "It was a happy shop. Then he became the Sunday editor [in 1973] and grew fangs." The incisors, apparently, were retractable; as editorial-page editor since 1977, Frankel earned a reputation for being fair and open-minded. He tempered the paper's traditionally liberal editorial stance while solidifying the page's influence...