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...fond of recalling how he walked out on the actress Lauren Bacall after, he says, she yelled at him for cutting a clutch of lilies too short. Overall, however, his perseverance has been richly rewarded. Coria started out making just $3.25 an hour, but today he is a U.S. citizen and owns a house in the Hamptons town of Wainscott. He bought it for $125,000 in 1996, but similar homes are selling for more than half a million dollars today...
PLEADED NOT GUILTY. JOSE PADILLA, 35, U.S. citizen held without charge for more than three years as an enemy combatant suspected of terrorist ties; to new charges--filed after his lawyers were poised to challenge his detention before the Supreme Court--of conspiracy to "murder, kidnap and maim" abroad; in Miami...
...SENTENCED. VLADIMIR ARUTYUNIAN, 27, to life in prison for the attempted assassination of U.S. President George W. Bush and Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili; in Tbilisi, Georgia. Arutyunian, a Georgian citizen of Armenian descent, hurled a live hand grenade at the two leaders during a rally last May, but it fell short and failed to detonate. Arutyunian later killed a policeman in a shootout during his arrest. He was shown on television admitting that he threw the grenade, but his lawyer said he will appeal the sentence...
...comprehensive and, given this new federal program is limited to Pell-eligible students, the beneficiaries are likely to be already receiving strong grant aid from the College,” Day wrote.According to some, exclusion from the list is an auspicious political sign. Greene said that, as a French citizen, she is comforted that French does not feature on NSEP’s list.“This means that France and francophone countries are not presently considered as places where the U.S. may intervene...which, given the current situation in Iraq, is not something I would wish...
...momentum is with the moderate center.” Sharon, formerly a member of the right-wing Likud party in Israel, recently formed a new centrist party called Kadima that was expected to achieve a large victory in Israel’s March 28 elections. Some, including Israeli citizen Yakir A. Reshef ’09, said they were concerned that Kadima would be hurt, in the election, by Sharon’s stroke. “[Kadima] had a lot of momentum going before this happened,” he said...