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...Millionaire” and “The Weakest Link” tossing gimmicks into the usual game show formula, traditional quiz programs have to work it a bit to keep their audiences tuning in. Luckily for “Jeopardy,” a condescending Canadian host and intelligent guests have made it the number one quiz show for 769 weeks. But, apparently, the big wigs are starting to freak out. This season, “Jeopardy” is determined to make a splash running with its secret weapon: the Clue Crew. Instead of the regular text...
...whether they are receptive or not, the changes have already begun. Long waits to cross the Canadian and Mexican borders were the rule last week, as vehicles and travelers were finecombed by border police. Civil libertarians are bracing for an upsurge of "racial profiling" at airports targeting Arab Americans, or for an FBI investigation of the attacks that sucks in many innocent members of that group, or simply for a wave of hate crimes against them...
...case in point: The February trial of Fateh Kamel, a 40-year-old Algerian with Canadian citizenship, provided further evidence of the discrete patterns of the terror networks. Kamel had been arrested on a charge of "association with wrong-doers in relation with a terrorist enterprise," for his involvement in the "gang of Roubaix" - a group of young men whose criminal behavior had been considered anti-social rather than political...
...revealed some of the point men for the various regional networks with which Kamel had been put in contact. Based on Kamel's visits to Montreal, France's top anti-terrorist cop Jean-Louis Brugiere wanted to pay a call on Ahmed Ressam - but he was discouraged by incredulous Canadian authorities who considered the Algerian expatriate no more than a petty crook. This was the same Ahmed Ressam who in 1999 was arrested en route to Seattle with a car full of explosives...
CommunAuto brought the car-sharing phenomenon from Europe, where there are now 120,000 members, to Quebec City and Montreal in the mid-1990s. Since then, six other Canadian cities have followed suit...