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PORT ARTHUR, Australia: Australians are trying to come to terms with the enormous shock of Sunday's massacre that left at least 34 dead. Memorial services in Hobart drew hundreds of mourners, and the Prime Minister says the nation has been "shaken to the core." Martin Bryant, the man accused of opening fire on the group of tourists in Tasmania, is sedated and being treated for burns in the same hospital where several of the people he wounded are recovering. The staff there is on edge after anonymous callers threatened the nurses and doctors who are treating him. "There...
...afternoon, the four members of Hootie & the Blowfish--singer Darius Rucker, guitarist Mark Bryan, bassist Dean Felber and Sonefeld--leave the small bar where they have been hiding/waiting/drinking and head to a tent behind the stage where they are scheduled to perform. The crowd begins murmuring in delight and shock as word spreads that the band is backstage. A chant builds: Hoot-ie! Hoot-ie! But just then--and, if you're a student of outdoor rock festivals, you knew this would happen--it begins to rain. Hard. Noah's ark hard. But at this point, there is no turning...
Born and raised in Colorado Springs, Colorado, Weed has been legally blind and diabetic for most of his life. When he was six weeks old, medical professionals operated on congenital cataracts in his eyes. The stress and shock of the surgery, Weed says, may have generated his subsequent Juvenile Diabetes, which in turn caused his blindness...
...Washington, a city famous for counterfeit displays of emotion, Brown's demise at the age of 54 immediately transformed the corridors of power into a theater of genuine shock and grief. And as his sea of mourners gathered at one another's homes, Brown was remembered as the complicated figure he had been in life: a fan of Hermes ties who liked to dine in deep-fry joints; a defender of the little people who enjoyed being chauffeured around in limousines; a dealmaker who could talk policy (if only to better horse-trade on Capitol Hill); a big-time Washington...
...McDermott winds up at ABC, she'll find a company in the throes of corporate culture shock--or at least culture adjustment. Signs of Disneyfication have so far been small but symbolic. A new E-mail system on ABC computers is decorated with Mickey and Minnie icons, and Disney's annual report prompted snickers by referring to Capital Cities/ABC employees, in traditional Disneyese, as "new cast members." At a corporate retreat in Phoenix, Arizona, Eisner and Ovitz joined in the wholesome fun as a group of ABC execs was dragged off to a bowling alley...