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N.Y. Police on Trial in Wedding-Day Killing (Washington Post) - NEW YORK, Feb. 25 -- Police who fired 50 shots at an unarmed man, killing him on his wedding day, showed "carelessness verging on incompetence," a prosecutor asserted Monday in opening statements as the racially charged trial of three undercover detectives began.

Music Review: Beach House "Devotion" (Advance Titan) - When Beach House organist/singer Victoria Legrand wails, “Your wish is my command” on “Wedding Bell,” the first track on “Devotion,” she sounds like a woman committed.

In Thriving India, Wedding Sleuths Find Their Niche (Washington Post) - NEW DELHI -- Like a lot of young Indian couples, they met on a matrimonial Web site and within a matter of weeks were picking out the wedding invitations, reserving the horse-drawn carriages and having the bride fitted for a pearl- and gold-encrusted sari.

Cordero Has a Lot on His Plate -- a Diet Included (Washington Post) - Chad Cordero is the only sure thing in the Nationals' bullpen, so the closer's motivation to get healthy this offseason came at the perfect time.

02-25-08 EUR ALL ON ONE PAGE (Eurweb) - JOHNNY GILL ADDRESSES ALL THE RUMORS: Plus, singer confirms argument between mothers of Eddie and Tracey at 'spiritual wedding.'

LasVegasHotels.org Offers Vacationers an Inside Look at the Vegas Landscape (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance) - For vacationers unsure of the major Vegas hotspots, there's a new website LasVegasHotels.org.

Karen Ocamb: A Raisin in the Sun Producer Craig Zadan on the Movie's Gay Subtext (HuffingtonPost) - "Whenever you deal with an issue of minorities, you also deal with gays and lesbians -- and especially with a play by an African American lesbian playwright -- it became very, very important to us to tell this story."

Olympic skater Tonya Harding inspires rock opera (The Columbian) - No one around here attracts attention quite like Tonya Harding. Camera crews from local news stations as well as radio and print journalists huddled in the World Trade Center lobby recently to witness the latest installment in the ongoing Harding spectacle.

Internet Exposure Damages Actor's Career in China (PC World via Yahoo! News) - A young former idol learns a hard lesson about careless security when his hard drive's contents are posted.

Botswana: We Have Art so That we Shall Not be Destroyed by the Truth (AllAfrica.com) - Michael Ondaatje. Divisadero (2007) London, Bloomsbury, 276 pages, hardcover, P231, ISBN 0-7475-8924-0.. Available at Exclusive Books, Riverwalk.