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...your smarmy pundits-and the smarmy pundits you have in your pocket-can take your war and shove it.' SEAN PENN, actor, about President George W. Bush, at a March 24 town-hall meeting in Oakland, California
...South Africa (he left before Cronje's admissions) and Pakistan in a book he was writing? His wife and the book's co-author say that last idea is nonsense, that the book was about coaching techniques, not corruption. But former South African captain Clive Rice told a Cape Town newspaper he had "absolutely no doubt" that Woolmer was killed because of what he knew...
...unprecedented chance for Arezzo to spread its wings. "Piero has become the very expression of the city's identity," says Arezzo's commissioner of culture Camillo Brezzi, noting the importance of the True Cross restoration in drawing visitors. "But like all of Italy really, this remains a small town no matter how big it might get." With its medieval architecture and steep cobblestone streets, the city of 97,000 is in fact a midsize cultural gem that sometimes gets lost in the shadow of Florence to the north and Siena to the west. It was the hometown of the Roberto...
POLITICIAN About halfway between Iceland's capital city of Reykjavík and the small town of Hveragerdi, the smell of sulfur hangs in the air. White plumes of steam billow from deep under the earth into the blue sky, and moss covers the lava-strewn ground. It's a dramatic scene, and if Icelandic President Olafur Grimsson has his way, it will be the stage for the next big advance against global warming...
Early Wednesday morning, the children of Musmos Daycare Center, in Manila's Tondo slum, were supposed to be headed on an excursion to the nearby resort town of Tagaytay. Instead they spent the day parked in their school bus near Manila's city hall - hostages in a nationally televised, eight-and-a-half-hour standoff between their daycare center's owner and Manila police...