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...Cabinet, Part 2. Los Angeles's LACMA has Hearst the Collector on view. Immortalized in Orson Welles' Citizen Kane, the newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst was said to have provided 25% of the art on the market in the 1920s and '30s. The LACMA collection includes 17th-century armor and tapestries, as well as Hearst's sculpture and paintings. Through Feb. 1, 2009. 5905 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles...
...Blue Ribbon, Tecate, Kokanee). Drink it with your scruffy friends. Drink it until you vomit. Rock out while you do so. When you’ve had enough beer, hit the nearest metal shop. Now take all your empty cans and weld them together into weapons and suits of armor. How much cooler is that idea than recycling, or even—dare I say it—commingled recycling? This seems to be the gist of “Prehistoric Dog,” at least until around the mid-way point, when the guys in Red Fang suit...
...explain the current financial crisis to me? No, I can only say that I hope you have done what I did, which is to buy a lot of gold, melt it down and build a suit of armor out of it so you can fight your way out of the food riots that will occur in the near future, probably next Tuesday...
...security to the insurgency-wracked villages of southern Afghanistan. Afghan police are only lightly armed. They carry AK-47s, and each truck is mounted with a Russian light machine gun. In Bala Beluk, Khodaydad's forces routinely face insurgents armed with an arsenal of mortars, rockets, rocket-propelled grenades, armor piercing rounds and increasingly sophisticated Improvised Explosive Devices. Between March 2007 and March 2008 police casualties hit 1119, according to the Ministry of the Interior. Afghan National Army deaths, by contrast, were 280. In the six months since March, another 720 police have died. "Our police have changed...
...hero of Russia and a Lieut. Colonel of the Russian Army (and until recently commander of the Spetsnaz Vostok battalion in Chechnya), was stripped of his command and placed under investigation by Moscow under Kadyrov's pressure. The killer shot Ruslan point-blank in downtown Moscow, penetrating an armor-plated car by way of a slit in a window while the Chechen leader was on his way out of the Kremlin, where he had pleaded Sulim's case with an important member of the administration...