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DIED. TOWNES VAN ZANDT, 52, country singer whose dark recordings about life's losers included Pancho and Lefty (recorded by Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard); of a heart attack; in Smyrna, Tennessee. Born to wealth, Van Zandt spent part of his teens institutionalized for manic depression. At one point he became so poor he subsisted on dog food. But his songs influenced generations of country and rock singers, from Neil Young to the Cowboy Junkies...
...nowhere, swarming across the city. They hit the headquarters of the fsb and Interior Ministry, several large police stations, and a prison. At the fsb, a minibus carrying six armed men in uniforms and ski masks pulled up in front of the building. They clambered out of the van and charged. Evgeniya Sokurova, the manager of the Rossia Hotel just opposite, noticed them. "I said, 'It looks like there are training exercises going on,'" she recalls. "Then there was an enormous explosion...
ElizabethtownDirected by Cameron CroweParamount Pictures3.5 Stars“I teach [my kid] about Abraham Lincoln and Ronnie Van Zant because they are both of equal importance,” says one character in Cameron Crowe’s “Elizabethtown,” the latest work from the creative genius behind “Almost Famous.” In this new film, the writer-director attempts to make sense of the varied and often irreverent cultural contrasts and contradictions he finds amid the Mississippi River Valley. Crowe starts his film in the contrastingly sterile and bland corporate...
...also advised students of the recently-installed HUPD substation in the office wing of Mather House, which provides additional police presence. Catalano also reminded students to take safety precautions. “Whenever possible they should walk in groups, use [the Harvard University Campus Escort Program] or the escort van, and if people are walking alone, they should try to be vigilant of their surroundings by not talking on cell phones or using an iPod,” he said. Several Mather residents said that the recent robbery didn’t make them particularly concerned about safety...
Italy had a moat to ward off invaders, but Federico didn't need one. He was that kind of powerful. Urbino is now a university town with a population of just 15,000, and maneuvering through its narrow, walled streets takes about five minutes, even in a van the size of Pavarotti. We entered the palace and immediately realized that this was not just another of the extravagantly fussed-over behemoths that dot Italy like diners on Route 66. Standing in the Cortile d'Onore, with its perimeter framing a perfect square of sky, you feel the exuberance of Renaissance...