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Everywhere one hears the piercing screech of the cutting wheels. It's crazy to watch precious stones being negotiated by people standing in spit and piles of garbage. And why is there no security? Everyone appears to have his pockets stuffed with stones, but there is only the occasional camera, some padlocks here and there and a few guards. "They are very casual about the gems. They've always lived with it," offers De Taillac...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Passage to India | 3/8/2006 | See Source »

...Rival groups of angry young men are beating their chests and pumping up the volume of hate screech. One mob is mainly white surfer boys, the other tough guys of Lebanese origin. A festival of aggression-glass has been smashed, cars trashed, alcohol spilt and heads bashed-is never a pretty sight. This is a fight to the bottom for males who haven't found their place in the world. Loserpalooza is not the face that upwardly mobile, multicultural Sydney wants to show to the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Loserpalooza: Behind Sydney's 'Race' Riots | 12/14/2005 | See Source »

...night on the town with Screech, the Nationals mascot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fans Gone Batty | 8/21/2005 | See Source »

...pint-sized companions to watch Lohan’s fifth feature, “Herbie: Fully Loaded.” Once she came on screen, I felt like I was seeing a startlingly well-fed, auburn-tressed ghost. A ghost that delivered each wooden line reading in a hoarse screech. This may be another Disney remake, but Lohan ain’t the adorable star of “The Parent Trap” anymore...

Author: By Simon W. Vozick-levinson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Lindsay Lohan Vehicle Has Tank Only Half Full | 7/1/2005 | See Source »

...fund-drive board includes the town's fire chief, town clerk, librarian and a few other regular folks. Republican Conte was a friend of Rockwell's and helped get a stop sign put up so cars would not screech out into the street in front of Rockwell's place, causing the artist to fear that an auto might crash into his studio. Rockwell wanted to paint Conte, but the Congressman never found time, and the artist died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Rockwell Was Wonderful | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

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