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...diplomat and English teacher sentenced to 13 years in prison for obscene acts with minors; by hanging himself in a jail cell; in Karangasem, Bali. Brown, who was convicted of having sex with a 13-year-old boy and a 15-year-old boy, received an unusually long sentence amid a campaign by Bali to shed its image as a pedophile's paradise...
...dismay of its many fans, the hit NBC sitcom Friends aired its series finale amid much fanfare last week. When comedian JERRY SEINFELD announced that the ninth season of his namesake show would be its last, fans were equally devastated...
...need to put France first." Many younger conservatives, though, can't embrace those ideas. Polls show them to be far more economically liberal and comfortable with the E.U. than Chirac's generation. "The ump is no longer a Gaullist party," says Reynié. "The younger generation has grown up amid the crisis of the French model, and they're not as attached to the state." Florian Guingrich, 22, head of the ump youth group in Avignon, complains about a party that talks but doesn't listen, that wants to decentralize France but is itself centralized...
...refugee accused of terrorist ties, a citizenship ban on three New Zealand residents, passport fraud charges against two Israeli visitors and a local immigration agency, and a forgery scam that's compromised hundreds of Kiwi passports have made border security a topic nearly as talked-about as rugby. Amid calls from New Zealand First M.P. Ron Mark to "act to protect this country before it is too late," and pleas from Progressive M.P. Matt Robson to avoid "a hysterical reaction to the threat of terrorism," the Labour-led government is moving to toughen passport, citizenship and immigration rules. But while...
...challenges the imagination to believe that anything good could come out of an awful month in Iraq. But amid the rubble of Fallujah and the gruesome images from the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad, a bad idea has died. That is something...