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The head of Norway's intelligence agency Janne Kristianse that she believes accused terrorist Anders Breivik received plastic surgery in order to look more "Aryan." "You do not have that Aryan look naturally in Norway," she said in an interview with the Sunday Times (article behind paywall)...

A cowboy appeared before St. Peter at the Pearly Gates. 'Have you ever done anything of particular merit?' St. Peter asked. 'Well, I can think of one thing,' the cowboy offered. 'On a trip to the Black Hills out in South Dakota , I came upon a gang of bikers who were threatening a...

Dmitri Shostakovich composed his first opera, "The Nose," more than 80 years ago and based it on a short story written nearly a century before that. Yet few works in the repertory seem more modern or musically challenging than this absurdist masterpiece that came to the Metropolitan Opera for...