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Jerri Manthey is no stranger to hostile environments. On Survivor 2: The Australian Outback, she encountered extreme heat, extreme eating challenges and extreme backstabbing. But it is in her second reality go-around, on the WB's The Surreal Life, that she really finds herself out of her element: she is the only nonactor or nonmusician in a group of seven former celebrities picked to share a mansion for 10 days. "None of us know who she is," says housemate and former teen idol Corey Feldman in the debut episode. "She's not part of our society." "I felt like...
...judge the truth. Perhaps, though, the children are still honest. One little boy suddenly approaches in a crowded market to announce that he is ready to fight. Fight whom? "Saddam," he says brightly. "If I have a gun, I will kill him." He is quickly hushed by a stranger standing nearby...
...educate them, and most importantly, I will protect them. At the time, Jose Pereira, a poor local farmer, awoke each morning wondering if that day the truckload of Indonesian soldiers would appear in their vengeful hunt for independence fighters and attack his family. He listened carefully to what the stranger offered. Hasan said he had government funding. He would take the children to a school in the town of Bacau, an hour's drive away, where they would be safe. The only requirement was that the children convert from Catholicism, which is practiced by most East Timorese, to Islam...
Twain and Lange now live in their chateau in Tour-de-Peilz, Switzerland, one of the more beautiful places in the world in which to bore yourself to tears. The food is great, the mountains are mountainous, and the people are impenetrable. "Hello" from a stranger is an embarrassing monologue. They moved there in part for tax purposes and in part because their 3,000-acre spread in upstate New York was no longer private enough. Twain has persuaded her record label not to promote her music in Switzerland. They really like their privacy...
Filled to the brim with eager Matmos fans, the small auditorium had been transformed from a dreary review session cave into an impromptu audiovisual showcase, with the room’s projector screen looming above racks of mixers, keyboards and laptops. Stranger sounds probably never emerged from Science Center D. Guest artist Keith Fullerton Whitman, best known as glitchcore renegade Hrvatski, began his half-hour set with lo-fi guitar twangs that quickly dissolved into a hypnotic ocean of swirling sonic detritus, electronic squalls, static bombs, gurgles and crackles...