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...hurt by it but her boys can. Above all else, Diana was a mother.' ROSA MONCKTON, a friend of Princess Diana, saying images of the princess's crash featured in a forthcoming Channel 4 documentary in the U.K. are insensitive and designed to boost TV ratings...
...Calais mayor's spokesman Bernard Barron counters that his city has no choice. "Calais has been abandoned by Europe, by France, by Britain," he says. "We are alone." The same cannot be said of Khodadadi, one of just hundreds camped along the coast, eyeing their dream destination across the Channel...
...beach is a haven - though, he hopes, a temporary one. Squatting on a weathered crate under plastic sheeting, he says: "Welcome. This is my home." If the British government has its way, the young Afghan's home will remain right here - on a patch of scrubland overlooking the English Channel. But Khodadadi has his heart set 34 km across the water in England, where, he says, his brother works in a Birmingham coffee shop and has vowed to find him a job. That his entry and his job will almost certainly be illegal doesn't matter much to him. Lean...
...their own way, both sides have proven correct. True to Sarkozy's prediction, only about 1,500 people sneaked into England from Calais last year, compared with more than 10,000 in 2002. Many would-be refugees are now trying to cross from other Channel ports like Dunkirk and Cherbourg...
...Podd"--songs from Ben Lee, the Silversun Pickups, Arcade Fire. Who doesn't like a friend who turns them on to new music? But I finally had to eliminate Dodd because the dude kept sending me bulletins. One asked me to vote in an online poll for Iowa's Channel 13 news about which candidate the station should profile next. Friends who ask you to vote for them in online polls are too high maintenance...