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...Kuwaiti forensic police found tire tracks and boot prints in muddy open ground 300 yards south of the shooting that they believe may be connected to the attack. A team of white-coated women took plaster castes of the tracks for further investigation. A policeman said tests would soon determine how many weapons had been used in the attack. The field running alongside the highway is crisscrossed with dirt roads making escape on foot or by car easy...
...doomed Dinotopia for about five seconds) to complete adventure challenges hampered by one player who is a secret "mole" working to sabotage them. Fox has degraded such thought-to-be-not-further-degradable entities as Vanilla Ice and Barry Williams (The Brady Bunch) on Celebrity Boxing and Celebrity Boot Camp. For later this year, ABC is planning I'm a Celebrity ...Get Me Out of Here!, which would strand minor stars in a remote location. CBS is suing over the similarity to Survivor, for which the network has, of course, pondered a celebrity version...
...school. The plaintiffs also fear they will be banished permanently. "The statute doesn't provide clear timetables or means by which those students can get back to regular schools," says their attorney, Marsha Levick. One student, who may sign on as a plaintiff, recently emerged from two months in boot camp for car theft and resents not being able to return to the regular classroom. "When you go to that [alternative] school, people know you did something wrong," he says. "I feel like I'm being punished twice...
FRANCE Terror Setup A French-Algerian airport baggage handler, suspected of being a terrorist when he was arrested after weapons and explosives were found in the boot of his car, was released from jail. Police say he was the victim of a setup. Abderazak Besseghir argued that he was being framed by the family of his late wife, a claim substantiated when a witness who told police he saw Besseghir handling the guns in the car park of Charles de Gaulle airport admitted to being part of a plot to implicate...
...flag. That's why Americans make the best Roman films." American hegemony is just one of a multitude of topics on which Ustinov is happy to expound. The British-born son of a French mother and a half-German, half-Russian father (who had an Ethiopian grandmother to boot), his cosmopolitan origins and a lifetime of hobnobbing with the high and mighty have turned him into a consummate, and well-connected, pundit. His work as a U.N. goodwill ambassador - he's still going strong after 35 years on the job - keeps him in the international mix. Fluent in English, French...