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...RELEASED. MORDECHAI VANUNU, 50, former nuclear technician who was imprisoned for 18 years, including 12 in solitary confinement, for revealing Israeli nuclear secrets to a British newspaper; in Ashkelon, Israel. The convert to Christianity, who has had severe restrictions placed on his travel, was defiant upon his release. "To all those calling me a traitor," he said. "I'm proud and happy to do what...
...Papadopoulos dismisses warnings that this is the last chance, though he also allows that the odds of permanent partition, something he says he's worked his life to prevent, are increasing. Bishop Chrysostomos, leader of the island's Orthodox faithful and an ardent backer of the oxi campaign, is defiant: "As soon as we say no, six days after [that] we will be in the E.U.," he says, proudly. "Our voice will be heard even louder." Will anyone still be listening...
...anything Bush was defiant. He clung to the claim that weapons of mass destruction might be found in Iraq. ?They could still be there like the 50 tons of mustard gas hidden on a turkey farm,? he said, referring to recent findings that Libya stored the lethal chemical before it renounced such weapons. He wished he?d created a Department of Homeland Security, but failed to mention that he had opposed it. Echoing what his advisers had said, he noted that he would have ?moved heaven and earth? had he known 9/11 was coming. Once again, the president portrayed...
Listening to Nelms and Gould, you begin to wonder if they see no limits. Nelms laughs: of course there are limits, and yes, they're imposed by age. But is Gould finally content? She is distant, then suddenly alert, almost defiant. "People like happy endings," she says. "I have periods of incredible frustration and confusion, and periods of great satisfaction. This is not a linear journey where I've arrived...
...ties and earned Raffarin a personal rebuke: voters in his conservative-controlled home region of Poitou-Charentes massively backed a leftist list - headed by Ségolène Royal, Socialist leader François Hollande's partner. After initially looking stunned by the results, Raffarin rebounded with some defiant stump speeches meant to get across the message that reform is vital - and will continue. That message isn't going over very well. While the French have felt the sting of modest labor reform (some employees must work longer before full pensions kick in; one public holiday was eliminated...