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Nearly as stunning as the outburst of violence was the French government's failure to stop it. In an embarrassing admission of its loss of control, the government was forced to suspend some train service from Paris to Charles de Gaulle Airport after two trains were targeted by a mob of youths. As the unrest mounted last week, the political left and the rioters themselves laid blame on the zero-tolerance policies of Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, the ambitious crime fighter who is vying to succeed President Jacques Chirac...
...covert detention centers in Thailand and Guantánamo Bay, which are no longer operating, and that the agency continues to run similar facilities in Afghanistan and Eastern Europe. In Afghanistan, the agency's prison was once located in an old brick factory near Kabul's airport, nicknamed the Salt Pit by the CIA and the Darkness Prison by inmates. Detainees who have escaped or been released from the prison claim they were kept in cold, dark cells underground, fed once every three days and sometimes chained wet and naked to the wall overnight...
...special election, which will cost the state more than $50 million, but Republicans now think it may have been a mistake. On Saturday, a Schwarzenegger aide blocked perhaps his two most famous critics-liberal actor Warren Beatty and his wife, Annette Bening-from crashing a gubernatorial event at an airport hangar in San Diego...
...verify. Every one of Clinton's alleged mistresses who could be identified and reached either denied the troopers' claims or refused to speak. In one allegation, Patterson claimed to have escorted a woman he identifies as a judge's wife to a send-off ceremony at the Little Rock airport before Clinton's Inaugural. At the airport, he said, Hillary Clinton recognized the woman as one of her husband's mistresses and furiously ordered the trooper to take her away. Reached last week by TIME, the woman insisted that the story was ''totally false . . . I have never had a relationship...
...ferry their grandkids around from infancy, and in most cases the children are unafraid. But Corbett is taking no chances with his 10 grandkids. He does a three- to six-month prep with them, one by one, just before they reach age 3. First he takes them to the airport to accustom them to the roar of engines and the odor of fuel. When they're ready, they venture out on the wing, then into the cockpit. Only after they ask to go up does Corbett take them. Afterward, he proudly awards each one a personalized first-flight certificate...