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Songwriters often sprinkle their work with literary references--doesn't Nelly's Hot in Herre owe something to Goethe? But legendary lyricist BOB DYLAN may have taken more than inspiration for his aptly titled 2001 Grammy-winning album, Love and Theft, from a little-known Japanese writer named Junichi Saga. A doctor and author of 15 books, Saga told TIME he was "filled with surprise and true joy" when he learned from a reporter at that frothy Dylan fanzine, the Wall Street Journal, that some of the singer's lyrics match passages in Saga's 1989 book, Confessions...
...HUPD officers were sent to Rosovsky Hall to assist the Cambridge Police Department with a possible motor vehicle theft...
Much has been written about how Iraqis complicated the task of rebuilding their country by looting it after Saddam Hussein's regime fell. In the case of the international airport outside Baghdad, however, the theft and vandalism were conducted largely by victorious American troops, according to U.S. officials, Iraqi Airways staff members and other airport workers. The troops, they say, stole duty-free items, needlessly shot up the airport and trashed five serviceable Boeing airplanes. "I don't want to detract from all the great work that's going into getting the airport running again," says Lieut. John Welsh...
...officers were dispatched to Chilton Street to take a report of a break-in at a first floor apartment. The residents reported the theft of change, jewelry and a diamond ring...
...Marine died at Hillah when his armored vehicle rolled over as it rushed to reinforce a group of ambushed Marines, and a soldier was killed when a bomb exploded near his vehicle on the road to Baghdad airport. In Najaf, a soldier was killed while investigating the theft of a car. In Baghdad, a soldier was shot in the head while shopping in a store, and another was killed and four were wounded when their convoy was attacked in the northern part of the city. Two soldiers from an artillery unit were abducted from a rocket-demolition site they...