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First, Canadian authorities could not find Ressam's Algerian compatriot, Abdelmajid Dahoumane, indicted with Ressam for transporting explosives and timing devices from Canada into the U.S. on Dec. 14. While an uncooperative Ressam pleaded not guilty last Thursday in Seattle, Dahoumane remains at large. Then Irish police lost track of Hamid Aich, also Algerian. He lived in Vancouver at the same time as Dahoumane, and the U.S. would like to question him. But he had ducked out to Ireland, where he was arrested briefly during the holidays, then released. Now he has disappeared. Last week came the clincher...
...rest of the Natalies, they hold no grudge toward their more famous compatriot. The price of fame appears too high. As one particular e-mail to the Natalie support group ended, "Have any of you ever pretended to be Natalie Portman? That would be kinda funny. Well, maybe for like two seconds, anyway...
...lead "lovely contadine" in this production are both well-chosen for their roles. Cary Rosko sings the part of Tessa (Giuseppe's wife) loudly and down-right charmingly, although she could stand to be a little more silly (this is Gilbert and Sullivan, after all), like her compatriot Julie Quenlan, a graduate student at the New England Conservatory who is delightfully over-the-top as the giggly and giddy wife of Marco, Gianetta...
...fire on pro-democracy protesters in Tiananmen Square; in Beijing. A veteran of the Long March, Shangkun was an acolyte of Mao Zedong, and later his victim, imprisoned for 12 years during the Cultural Revolution. Rehabilitated in 1978, he was put in charge of the army by longtime revolutionary compatriot Deng Xiaoping...
...students were. As one of the pro-democracy movement's leaders said, the heroes of the tank picture are two: the unknown figure who risked his life by standing in front of the juggernaut and the driver who rose to the moral challenge by refusing to mow down his compatriot...