♫ In the Alpine village of Boïens, bare-chested and wearing amulets, 300 machete-wielding peasants (the 300 inhabitants) heard the noises made when icebergs crack. It's quite an eerie sound to hear the earth breaking apart like that. In a village close to the border, demonstrations and rioting can occur with little or no warning. Cheering and youthful pilgrims roam the streets by the millions under command from her majesty to order our national flowers, or virgins, to converge at the Ludzidzini palace on Sunday so that they can drop their woolen tassels on Monday. Beyond a backdrop of banditry and armed rivalry ingeniously barbaric machete-wielding peasants perform victory jigs and idolatry.

Three sailors were drowned in a lake when they became entangled in underwater vegetation, creating a murky plume that stretched for miles to a makeshift morgue. "Farewell cousin, because here we're frozen," said Hans Lüthy, a successful Swiss corn broker. Anda was swept away by a swollen torrent overnight; he used to dance at the souvenir shop.

Between two errant strips of cloth, media critic David Shaw dies alone at 62.

• Anda, bare-chested and wearing amulets, dances to drummed music at the only souvenir shop in Kulusuk, a hunter village of 300 inhabitants and 1,000 dogs.
• "It's really quite an eerie sound to hear the Earth ripping apart like that. We hear it on smaller earthquakes quite frequently but something of this scale that goes on for eight minutes is very much unprecedented," said Maya Tolstoy, a marine geophysicist at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.
• Americans are reminded that demonstrations and rioting can occur with little or no warning.
• "I have it in command from his majesty to order all the national flowers to converge on Ludzidzini royal palace on Sunday so that they can deliver the woolen tassels on Monday," said Nkhonto Dlamini, a leader of young Swazi women, in a broadcast on national radio. The tassels will be burned at ceremonies on Tuesday.
• In Venezuela, land is being expropriated from wealthy landlords, including foreign-owned farms, with no compensation, and turned over to machete-wielding peasants who perform victory jigs for foreign television crews.
• Three sailors in Panama's navy drowned yesterday during a regional drill to test the Panama Canal's defenses against terror attacks. The Panama Maritime Authority said they drowned in a lake when they became entangled in underwater vegetation. They were taking part in military maneuvers in the lake, which is linked to the canal, to test the region's defenses against possible attacks.
• The toxin was liquid cow manure—three million gallons in all—creating a murky plume that stretched for miles and giving unfortunate new meaning to the river's name.
• Police said the man was Nektarios-Sotirios Voutas, 32, who had told Greek TV stations Sunday his cousin texted him minutes before the crash saying: "Farewell, cousin, here we're frozen."
• Hans Lüthy was a successful Swiss corn broker and a patron of the arts.
• One person was killed and another was missing after eight houses were swept away by a swollen torrent overnight in the small town of Brienz in central Switzerland, a local official said.
• ❀ David Shaw, 62; Prize-Winning Times Writer Forged New Standards for Media Criticism