Word: corsica
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...that James Andanson, a photojournalist who owned such a car and later was found to have committed suicide, was a secret agent and was involved in the Diana crash. Stevens found Andanson had been home with his wife that night, before flying the next day to an assignment in Corsica...
...successfully thwarting a score or more of major plots. Lately, however, some of the French force's luster has tarnished as allegations of torturing and framing suspects have arisen. Last week, an appeals court acquitted two Corsican nationalists of contracting the 1998 assassination of Claude Erignac, former prefect of Corsica and the state's highest representative on the island. Though upholding their conviction for involvement in 1994 bombings on the French mainland, the court cleared Jean Castela and Vincent Andriuzzi of participating in the conspiracy to murder Erignac. The trial laid bare many gaps - and some false evidence...
...strike, a silent minority of Europeans approved. Former French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing spoke for them when he recalled how he sent French paratroops to quell an insurgency in Zaïre in 1978. On that occasion, he noted gratefully, "our forces were conveyed from Corsica to Zaïre by American planes." Giscard and Thatcher showed that not all Europeans have forgotten how allies, even when they disagree, sometimes have to stand by each other...
Over our beers, Klaus tells me he’s a national pool champ. He has also been to all the countries in the world, except for Brazil and Corsica, which are too dangerous. It’s hard to believe what he says. But I don’t have the guts to admit that I’m exhausted and just want to sleep. An hour after midnight, we still look at his holiday photos. Then, he reveals his big dream...
Last summer Jay-Z took the first vacation of his life. "Went to the south of France, Sardinia, Corsica, Monte Carlo. For a month I didn't do anything," he says. "We saw some things. We lived life. And that pretty much sealed the retirement." The use of we is as close as Jay-Z comes to talking about his relationship with Beyonce, but he says he sees a future in which he has kids ("the biggest thing missing in my life"), runs Roc-A-Fella and maybe even takes over as president of his corporate music parent, Universal Records...