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Riding with Saran were four of his friends, including a popular Indian music TV host, all of whom were killed instantly when a speeding truck plowed into their car before fleeing the scene. The truck’s driver was arrested the following day on charges of homicide...
Dehn, 52, says he has had phenomenal results. "Of about 60 people I have sentenced like this, there are only three who have gotten a new DUI over the past four years," he says. "We are empowering the drunk driver like no one else has done before to change his life." The success has led Dehn to consider extending the program to other crimes, such as domestic violence and drug abuse. As many as 15 other judges in Minnesota are trying staggered sentencing, in part because of the annual classes on sentencing alternatives that Dehn teaches for new judges...
...last major site on Phnom Kulen takes a bit of perseverance and imagination to enjoy. From the base of Preah Ang Tho, hire a motorbike driver for a challenging ride deep into the jungle wilderness (cost: about $10). He'll take you to a clearing that was home, about 1,000 years ago, to an Angkorian Period pottery factory. Shards of jars and fragments of sculptures are everywhere, seemingly untouched by archaeologists. Instead, amateurs, in the form of residents from nearby villages, have tried putting pieces together, standing them up against dead trees...
...oldest synagogue was deliberate and said the act was planned by a man suspected of links to international Islamic groups. Investigators said the blast, caused by an exploding fuel truck, was similar to the attack on the U.S. embassy in Tanzania. Police arrested an uncle of the truck driver, accusing him of complicity in the incident...
...President Chirac's Gaullists, of course, are feeling as if they're now in the driver's seat, and they'll be hoping to end "cohabitation" by riding Chirac's coat tails to a victory in the June parliamentary elections. It's too early to tell which way the crisis will break, but what is abundantly clear now is that France is no longer quite the standard-bearer of the European left that it has been for years...