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...Queensland lawyer John Bell thought the Japanese troops responsible for the strangling of his grandfather in New Guinea had been tried and sentenced. He knew that 64-year-old John William Bell had been among a party of 23 Australian nationals, including a 14-year-old boy, who were rounded up and garrotted on New Ireland's Kavieng wharf in 1942. War crimes investigators indicted six Japanese over the massacre in the late 1940s. But what Bell didn't know was that the Australian government dropped the case against a seventh man, the officer who decreed that the victims...
Eragon is your basic boy-meets-dragon story. The titular hero is a teenage boy who finds a strange blue stone that turns out to be an egg. The egg hatches into a beautiful, powerful and somewhat sassy blue dragoness named Saphira with whom Eragon forms a telepathic bond. It's an irresistible premise: she's exactly the kind of perfect friend a smart, lonely mountain boy would invent for himself, although Paolini doesn't feel as though he missed out on anything growing up in Montana. "I don't think I'd have written anything like...
...West persuaded them to let him try rapping and producing for a year. Recalls Donda: "He said, 'Mom, I can do this, and I don't need to go to college because I've had a professor in the house with me my whole life.' I'm thinking, This boy is at it again. He always could twirl a word...
...honed his delivery and made beats for other rappers. Within a few months he had his first major sale--$8,000 from a Chicago rapper named Gravity. "That's when I knew the one-year plan was out the window," says West. Soon he was making beats for Bad Boy Records' rapper Mase, and in 2001 West produced several tracks for Jay-Z's groundbreaking album The Blueprint, using samples of old songs (the Doors' Five to One, the Jackson 5's I Want You Back) sped up until they sounded like Chipmunks cover versions. (West admits he took...
...well, he started out as a very nice boy...