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Authorities and celebrities are grappling with how to respond to a website that posted what appears to be private financial information about top government officials and stars such as Jay-Z and Mel Gibson. Los Angeles police and the FBI said they were aware of the pages but declined to confirm they were investigating the site, which posted purported Social Security numbers and credit reports of the leaders of both agencies
There’s no such thing as too much Robert Downey Jr as Tony Stark and luckily for us, Marvel Studios have just dropped a new Iron Man 3 trailer.
In 1960 chocolate-skinned Robert Sobukwe, 38, head of the black nationalist Pan-African Congress, was sentenced to three years in jail for “incitement to riot.” As his release date drew near last week, Sobukwe, a slim onetime university lecturer, was hustled from the maximum-security prison in Pretoria to a bleak detention camp on Robben Island in Table Bay, six miles from Cape Town. There he learned, just the day before he was to receive freedom, that South Africa's Parliament had rammed through a new security act empowering Justice Minister Johannes Vorster to keep political prisoners in custody indefinitely, even after their sentences have expired
“HUMOR can be dissected, as a frog can,” E. B
TITLE: A MURDER IN WARTIME AUTHOR: JEFF STEIN PUBLISHER: ST. MARTIN’S PRESS; 414 PAGES; $22.95 THE BOTTOM LINE: This is the best military morality tale since The Caine Mutiny
The troubled relations between Washington and Islamabad are undergoing further strain.
It was past midnight when the insurgents crossed into Afghanistan’s Dur Baba district on the border with Pakistan and began their descent. In the valley below, relatives of the district governor, Hamisha Gul, a tall, handsome man in his late 40s, had gathered at his compound to celebrate the impending marriage of his cousin Nawshir.
To find the happy teacher lately became the scientific quest of Assistant Director Robert Hoppock of National Occupational Conference. He asked groups of teachers if they were happy in their work, why or why not.
Last year Harold L. Ickes and Robert Houghwout Jackson handed U.
Really it’s a sad story. The Kissels are rich, or used to be, so it’s tempting to savor the elaborate murders and betrayals the family has endured as a long lost episode of Knots Landing.