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The 1983 Volkswagen GTI initiated legions of low-budget enthusiasts into the cult of German performance. The fifth-generation model recaptures the buzz-bomb spirit of the originals.
The United States Open’s latest rained-out sessions gave Andre Agassi one more day to recover and Benjamin Becker one more day to think.
Paramount Pictures has been swept clean over the last year or so. But one thing remains somehow unchanged on the company’s Hollywood lot: Robert Evans still holds sway.
When New York sold off houses it owned in Harlem and in Brooklyn, the new owners got below-market bargains. Now, as the neighborhoods have changed, they are harvesting their profits.
Calistoga may be among the few towns in the immediate region not altogether dominated by the cult of the grape.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 30, 2006, covering September 3, 2006.
Christina Aguilera
Lyfe Jennings
Trace Adkins
Cherish
Soundtrack
In 2006, the world population was approximately 6,671,452,015 people[†]