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...three-day shoot for the video was about to wrap, and director Mark Romanek needed just one more shot from his singer star, Johnny Cash. As Romanek recalls, "I said to John, 'This is the last take. So if you want to get angry or smash something up, this is your last chance.'" Cash didn't get it. He thought Romanek meant this would be the final shot in the ailing star's life, so he had better make it good. Cash wouldn't, couldn't surrender to such defeatism. "I hope it's not the last take," he said...
...cell phone charger, camera, laptop, DVDs and jewelry were reported stolen from Cabot House over the three-day period. And a laptop, jewelry and cash were reported taken from Currier yesterday...
...been characterized by their usual ruthless efficiency. By the night of Aug. 29, the rebels had shot dead a colonel on the doorstep of his Kathmandu home, gunned down a former government minister, firebombed the ancestral country mansion of the Finance Minister, robbed two banks and announced a three-day nationwide general strike. Some of these attacks bore a strong flavor of retribution. Fifty-two-year-old Kiran Basnet, the colonel shot in the chest and head outside his home, had been earmarked to take charge of the army's anti-Maoist battalion. Ex-Home Minister Devendra Raj Kandel, shot...
...promised highlight of the three-day bash was a Friday afternoon parade. But the closest thing to Rio's sumptuous Samba schools was a float from a local Brazilian restaurant, with two dusky dancers and a band. The rest of the dozen or so floats looked hastily cobbled together from tinfoil, and the bulk of the parade comprised local schoolchildren...
...their children's tennis career, hoping for future returns that almost never come. But tennis requires far more funds than the Zhbanovs can raise. An average club charges $10 to $50 per hour to play. Tennis gear costs run into the hundreds. Taking part in a three-day tournament abroad costs at least $1,500 per person, and the kids have to be escorted by their parents. Still, "so many people have dollar signs in their eyes," sighs Larisa Preobrazhenskaya, the legend of Russian tennis, once the first female racket of the U.S.S.R., and coach since...