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Witness In Alex Nieto Civil Rights Trial To Say He Had Hands In His Pockets When Police Shot Him

Witness In Alex Nieto Civil Rights Trial To Say He Had Hands In His Pockets When Police Shot Him Witness Antonio Theodore describes the 28-year-old Nieto looking “cool and casual” as he walked toward officers, with both hands in his jacket pockets. [ more › ]

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Tracey Ullman: ‘My face is good for impersonations’

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One of America’s most successful comic actors is back in Britain. Tracey Ullman tells Nigel Farndale why

At Tracey Ullman’s suggestion, we meet at a private member’s club around the corner from her home in Mayfair. In some ways this salubrious venue seems an appropriate setting, because according to the Sunday Times Rich List, the 55-year-old comic actor is worth £75m.

But in other ways it does not. The club is one of those places where you find yourself talking in muted voices so as not to disturb other members, and this doesn’t suit the voluble personality I’ve encountered in YouTube clips of Ullman on chat shows down the years. In those she’s very full on, an extrovert who seems more American than British, not least because she became a US citizen in 2006, after 20 years of living there.

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Video: Good Samaritan Gives Stranger Shirt Off His Back On Subway

Video: Good Samaritan Gives Stranger Shirt Off His Back On Subway In this post-Zardulu world, it’s increasingly difficult to tell what is real and what is a beautiful dream in a drab waking universe. But putting aside the nature of reality, it’s still always nice to see New Yorkers extending acts of kindness to one another. One man says he spotted just such an exchange on Friday, when he captured video of an alleged good Samaritan taking off his shirt and giving it to a shirtless straphanger. [ more › ]

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