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...pants and started masturbating me," the boy said. A day or two later, "he did it one more time." He said that Jackson showed him and his younger brother pornography in magazines and on the Internet, and plied them with wine--"Jesus juice"--in Diet Coke cans. Under stern cross-examination by Jackson lawyer Thomas Mesereau Jr., who argues that the family's charges are a scam to elicit money from Jackson, the boy wavered in some particulars but did not break...
...many requests, and mixed enjoyable crowd banter in with his mellifluous singing. Despite a history of rough musical relations (he was booted from Dinosaur Jr. because of his overbearing nature, and was responsible also for the breakups of both Sebadoh and the Folk Implosion), Barlow came off as neither stern nor aloof, and affably shared memories and stories with the audience all night...
...official photograph of Syrian President Bashar Assad is extremely stern. The photos and murals of his father and predecessor Hafez Assad, still festooned throughout Syria, are leavened by the confident gaze and beneficent smile possible only for a dictator in total control. Bashar, however, stares off into the middle distance, working hard to convey vision and strength but avoiding direct eye contact with his subjects. Indeed, the younger Assad, an ophthalmologist by trade who became heir apparent only when his older brother was killed in an automobile crash, remains something of a mystery to just about everyone. "The question...
...question stands: is it worth sacrificing a semester at Harvard to learn to wear Euro-trash boots with the best of them? Until as recently as my freshman year, the answer the College gave us was a stern “no.” We only have eight semesters at Harvard, the logic goes, and France will always be there when we’re done...
Sweeney last week endorsed one Stern idea: to give the unions back a share of their AFL-CIO dues so they can pour it into drives to recruit more members. Sweeney declined to say how large a rebate he would support, but a proposal, backed by the Teamsters, would require the federation to return $35 million--50% of its intake--to its member unions. The result would be a smaller budget, and presumably less political clout, for the AFL-CIO. A challenge to Sweeney's political clout may also be in the offing. Hotel workers' union president John W. Wilhelm...