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...January 2002, Richmond, Tex. Incident: A woman with a scarf over her face walked into the Fort Bend County Courthouse with a pellet rifle and threatened a justice of the peace. She was subdued, and deputies found the gun was not loaded Security: The county adopted an earlier plan to instal metal detectors and x-ray machines...
...imposed, seven out of seven judges will have to agree. Nevertheless, a senior U.S. official says, "there's a good deal of concern at the State Department" about rising British bad feeling, not least because "Blair's support has been so noteworthy that they'd like to bend over backward to help." But Guantánamo is the military's turf, "and they couldn't give a rip," says one U.S. diplomat - London wasn't even given advance notice of the decision to try Abbasi and Begg in Guantánamo. Luigi Manconi, a former Italian senator who now heads...
...once the idea of criminal charges had been seriously broached—and once it became clear that Okhotin would not bend to their threats—Sonnenberg says there was no turning back for the authorities...
...movies [PEOPLE, June 2], you asked, "Do we really want to live in a world where a beautiful actress can't smoke topless?" The answer is yes! Sorry, but smoking is that bad. There is nothing beautiful about it or the people who do it. LEN D. BUSZKIEWICZ South Bend...
...wearing Beckham shirts and waving Beckham dolls. Staking out the player's hotel, Yusuke Ozaki, 24, sported a Manchester United shirt but had already switched allegiance. "Real Madrid is my favorite club," he beamed. Beckham's legions of Asian fans could bring Real millions in merchandising revenue. Figo may bend it better than Beckham, but when it comes to giving the bottom line some kick, the Englishman scores every time...