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...stranger to speaking in front of large audiences, Lehrer speaks to millions of Americans nightly on PBS’s “The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.” Lehrer was yesterday’s keynote speaker...
...Crimson gets wind of social club developments twice a semester or so: busses used as toilets on the way back from punch events, strange initiation rituals, club finances gone untended, and so on. In many ways, these revelations are no stranger (though usually slightly more scandalous) than the stuff we do at The Crimson. Inclusive or exclusive, college clubs seem to share a common obsession with arcane initiation procedures, for instance. And every student group must use a system to decide who gets in and who stays out. This social club had just made the mistake of assembling an accessible...
...story of a man who is exonerated of raping and killing a waitress by DNA evidence, only five days before his 1999 execution. His confident publisher simply put a huge picture of the mega-bestselling author in its catalog, with the tag line, "Sometimes truth really is stranger than fiction...
...killing Lance Corporal Miguel Terazzas and starting the chain of terrible events, has been repaired with fresh concrete. The four houses where the tragedy unfolded have recently been patched up. The bullet holes have been filled, the scorch marks from FRAG grenades painted over and walls repaired. ?A stranger would not know anything special had happened there,? says Taher Thabet, a local journalism student and human-rights worker whose video first brought the Haditha massacre to TIME's attention. ?But those of us who live there, we look at the fresh concrete or the new paint and we know what...
...wonder boy of international cinema. Movies couldn't live without him. Babel's story line is even more complex than Volver's, spanning three continents and a dozen major characters, most of whom never meet one another. Yet their most innocent actions - giving a present to a stranger, escorting two kids to a wedding, taking target practice in the North African desert - have startling, perhaps tragic repercussions on the others...