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...that began in 1997 had long since metastasized: 17 adults charged and jailed, children forced into foster care, one successful suicide and another attempted. Last week it collapsed into a hideous lie, raising grave questions about French justice. Myriam Delay, her husband, Thierry, and their neighbors David Delplanque and Aurélie Grenon have all admitted to sexually abusing the Delay children. But the exceptionally talkative Myriam had kept the legal machine rolling for years by confirming the children's otherwise unsubstantiated charges that others were involved: the taxi driver that took them on their monthly shopping trips; the woman...
...Anastasio clearly enjoys himself abundantly as well: His tracks “Radon Balloon” and “Birthday Boys” are sublime psychedelic acoustic jams that sound a bit like the mellower moments of Led Zeppelin (compare with “Bron Y-Aur Stomp” off III). One might wish that Claypool had managed to trade for a vocalist to compare to the storm whipped up by the instruments; Claypool’s nasal cartoon voice and Anastasio’s simple waster mumble both serve them well, but pale in comparison to their...
...promptly funded IRS computer modernization. Before, the IRS had had a plan and no money; now it had money and no plan. No matter. It initiated a flood of programs (a state-of-the-art computer was necessary just to keep track of all the acronyms--ACI, AES, ALSS, AUR, FAISR, ICS, IMS). But each system was designed independently to meet specific needs within the empire. All systems would be go by the year 2001, the agency blandly assured Congress. With all the requests and funding, the final price tag for what ultimately became known as the Tax Systems Modernization...
...glowing object approach the craft just before the catastrophic explosion, it's a little harder to write off the testimony of Captain Chris Baur, an Air National Guard chopper pilot who witnessed the crash at close range and mounted the initial rescue effort. According to National Guard sources, B aur told his superiors that night that he thought he had seen a missile streaking toward the plane. The FBI insists that there is no proof of such a missile. NTSB experts say an optical illusion associated with a shooting flame from the initial spark may explain what he saw. Conspiracy...
...commemorates the spiritual heroism of the early martyrs, has a double significance to the French. With a canny sense of symbolism, Algeria's fledgling Front de Libération Nationale (F.L.N.) chose Nov. 1, 1954, as the day to launch its rebellion. In the wintry mountains of the Aurès, Muslim djounoud (soldiers of the faith) attacked a police station at Biskra, wounding two gendarmes. At Khenchela, a lieutenant, Gérard Darneau, was mortally wounded by machine-gun fire-the first French officer to die in the conflict...