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...summer of 2001, Reid was back in London. In July he obtained a new British passport in Amsterdam, claiming that he had accidentally put his old one through a washing machine, and flew to Israel on an El Al flight. Once in Israel, according to security sources there, Reid spent most of his time in Tel Aviv, where he cased the mall and office complex called the Azrieli Center as well as the local bus and train stations. ("Abdul Ra'uff" also checked security at the Western Wall of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.) After 10 days in Israel, Reid...
...MAHA VAJIRALONGKORN, 49, to SRIRASMI MAHIDOL NA AYUDHYA, 30; in Bangkok. On the advice of spiritual counselors, the couple were married secretly last year in an informal ceremony while wearing tracksuits and slippers. MARRIED. CROWN PRINCE WILLEM-ALEXANDER, 34, the Netherlands' Prince of Orange, to MAXIMA ZORREGUIETA, 30; in Amsterdam. Despite an initial outcry when the prince announced his engagement to the Argentine last March, the couple has since found public favor and last week hosted a regal wedding party for 50,000. BORN. To comic actor EDDIE MURPHY and his wife, NICOLE, a daughter, Bella Zahra; in Los Angeles...
Haughty decrees are one of the French state's specialties. In a proclamation issued in April 1999, Minister for Culture Cathérine Trautmann announced her intention to create a new exhibition space in Paris for young artists - modeled on existing centers in London, Amsterdam, Berlin and New York - in an attempt to revive the French capital's flagging reputation on the international contemporary art circuit. This delicate mission was entrusted to Nicolas Bourriaud and Jérôme Sans, a pair of maverick art critics and exhibition curators who wowed the faceless bureaucrats at the Culture Ministry with...
...only a few minor teething pains. The Euro is at last strengthening against other international currencies and leaders across the continent are already hailing it as a great success. Certainly, its introduction has significantly benefited tourists. With their trusty crisp blue bills travellers can now journey from Athens to Amsterdam without a thought about currency exchanges and can comfortably visit Rome without possessing an uncanny ability to divide...
...official told TIME last week, referring to Reid's failed attempt to ignite explosives in his sneakers while flying from Paris to Miami last month. Reid, 28, reportedly told the FBI he found the explosives he used on the Internet and bought them in Amsterdam. That story, the French official said, "wouldn't stand up if you nailed it to the ground." Not only are the explosives hard to come by, but their placement in a shoe and the sensitive detonation system required some expertise. Another sign Reid had help is that the sporadically employed ex-con somehow managed...