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...breadth of Kaiju’s popularity is unclear. “I can’t tell whether it is widespread or just my really cool friends,” said a Kaiju virgin...
...right. In summer there are a few chiringuitos - makeshift beach cafés - but it's easy to find sand and silence all for yourself. Only one building has been allowed on these cliffs: the hotel Cristóbal Colón Parador, built in the 1960s. This near-virgin strip of protected beach stretches about 15 km, with a few other entrances from the road. One, past the Parador towards Matalasca?as, leads to what's known locally as Playa Rompeculos, or Arsebreaker Beach. Fear not, the name refers to the effect of sandbars on the hulls of fishing boats...
...city of Gonaives. His bust sits prominently under a white awning, accompanied by a photo of Metayer's cadaver with his eyes poked out. His heart had also been removed. The grave is surrounded by offerings of candles, a bottle of orange soda, a picture of the Virgin Mary and a bottle of rum. These days in Gonaives, Metayer's mourners have been making another kind of tribute to his memory: hunting down officials of the government, which they blame for Metayer's murder--in one case cutting off a policeman...
...schockin? It turns out the administration distorted evidence—nay!—turned a blind eye to the lack of evidence supporting its claims! I, for one, have not been so utterly taken by surprise since Britney Spears announced that she wasn’t really a virgin. No, the pundits can say what they want about Bush’s shattered “credibility”, but like the emperor and his clothes, the president never really had any to begin with. Credibility, that...
DIED. JAMES JORDAN JR., 73, advertising executive who created some of the catchiest product slogans in Madison Avenue history; of an apparent heart attack; in St. John in the U.S. Virgin Islands. In 1968 he came up with the line "Wisk beats ring around the collar," reportedly after research found shirt-collar dirt to be among homemakers' peskiest wash problems. He also drummed into Americans' heads the notions that Tareyton smokers "would rather fight than switch" and that "Delta is ready when...