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Thursday, August 14, 2014
Bieber to plead guilty in drag racing case Agence France-Presse
WASHINGTON - Justin Bieber will plead guilty to lesser charges following his arrest for driving under the influence in Miami last January, a local newspaper reported Tuesday. The Canadian pop singer will agree to attend an anger management class and make a 50,000 dollar charitable contribution, the Miami Herald said, quoting sources. Bieber was arrested after an alleged drag racing incident, and police say he admitted to having smoked marijuana and taken the pre-
scription drug Xanax. In a hearing Wednesday, prosecutors are expected to drop the DUI charge. In exchange, Bieber’s lawyers will accept a guilty plea for careless driving and resisting arrest without violence, the paper said. Bieber is not expected to attend the court session. As part of the deal he will have to attend a 12-hour anger management course.
The 20-year-old drove a Lamborghini in the alleged race with his friend Khalil Sharieff and was reported to have used obscene words during his arrest. The troubled pop star has had several run ins with the law of late. In July he was sentenced in Los Angeles to two years’ probation for eggbombing his neighbors’ home. Bieber was also ordered to perform community service, join an anger management program, and pay the owners of the vandalized home more than $80,000 in repairs. Among his numerous other recent run-ins with the law, Bieber has a hearing pending in Canada into accusations he assaulted a limousine driver last year.
Taylor Swift waxes philosophical on ‘Giver’ themes Associated Press
NEW YORK — Not all the actors at a star-packed news conference Tuesday for the new film “The Giver” had been familiar with Lois Lowry’s acclaimed 1994 book before they made the film. But Taylor Swift sure had been. The 24-year-old singer read it in school, and says it had a huge influence on her outlook on life. “It celebrates all the things I hold really dear and are important to me,” Swift said, “like our history, our music, our art, our intellect and our memories.” Swift, who has a small role in the film alongside the likes of Jeff Bridges and Meryl Streep, waxed philosophical about the idea that people should be protected from the darker side of life. In “The Giver,” people live in a community of Sameness. They have no memories of the past, to protect them from feelings like pain or loss. But they also never experience love or real happiness. One boy, Jonas, seeks to change all that. “I’m seeing so many fans write to me on Instagram and Twitter, or in letters, saying they’re having such a tough time with life,” Swift said, “because they can’t imagine that we can experience such great pain, such intense loss, such insecurity. “And the thing that I just wish I could tell them, over and over, is that we live for these fleeting moments of happiness. Happiness is not a constant. It’s something that we only experience glimpses of every once in a while — but it’s worth it. “And I think that’s what they’ll take away from this movie.” “The Giver,” directed by Phillip Noyce, opens Friday.
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Taylor Swift arrives at New York premiere of “The Giver” at the Zeigfeld Theater on Monday, Aug. 11, 2014, in New York.
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Aspiration rejecting reclamation keeps flowing
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Government asked to immediately respond Bali Post
MANGUPURA - The circle of Badung House urged local government and central government to immediately respond to the aspirations on the rejection against the Benoa Bay reclamation plan. The government was asked not to ignore the aspirations persistently voiced by various elements of society. “This polemic must be discontinued because the public has been long fretted with the Benoa Bay reclamation plan,” said a legislator of the Badung House, I Made Duama. According to him, the aspiration on the rejection against the reclamation plan did not only arise from components of Badung and Denpasar community but also from various other counties in Bali. The aspirations, he said, were purely moral movement of people who did not want any excessive exploitation against the nature of Bali. Duama said that people had a variety of considerations to reject the reclamation plan. Some of the main considerations included the need to maintain the balance and sanctity of nature, the loss in terms of economic aspect chiefly on the coastal communities having fishery livelihood and the negative impact on Balinese culture as a result of the large-scale development of tourist accommodation. “People have considerations that must be respected by the stakeholders, especially the government. So, I ask the government both local government and central government to discontinue the Benoa Bay reclamation plan. We do not want this polemic prolongs and it can trigger unwanted things on our side,” said the politician from South Kuta. (kmb25)
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The circle of Badung House urged local government and central government to immediately respond to the aspirations on the rejection against the Benoa Bay reclamation plan.