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...Sens - where one-third of the town's 38,000 population lives in public housing. "The ills of the banlieue are French ills." It's in the projects themselves that the symptoms are the most severe. In Sens' Champs Plaisants project, school-age youths roam the tenements or fake calls on street-side phone booths while working as scouts for local drug dealers. "Dealers pay kids between €20 and €30 per 15 minutes to keep a watch for police patrols or strangers in the area," says Fort, who, like many municipal officials, is implementing Borloo's measures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Massive Project | 4/23/2006 | See Source »

...orphan listened as Sa'ad described the life awaiting her: a beautiful home, expensive clothes, parties with pop stars. Why, she'd be joining two other very happy teenage Iraqi girls living with Sa'ad in his harem. Safah knew that she was running out of time. A fake passport with her photo and assumed name had already been forged for her. But even if she escaped, she had no family who would take her in. She was even likely to end up in prison. What...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stolen Away | 4/23/2006 | See Source »

...accident in the last several years. When he saw me soon after the accident, my examination showed he had a mild finger and knee sprain, but no bruising or swelling. All of his x-rays and MRI's were essentially normal. Eddy walked with a ridiculously fake limp and a cane, when he remembered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fakes and Pains | 4/20/2006 | See Source »

...terrorist characters, and perhaps understandably so. In one of the film’s first shots of a terrorist training camp, the terrorists are shooting a training video for recruitment purposes. “Let’s shoot this puppy!” enthuses the director, in a fake, exaggerated Middle-eastern accent.Later, the terrorists watch spellbound as Omar wins successive elimination rounds on “American Dreamz.” In the last round, we see them nervously singing along with Omar, hoping he doesn’t mess up— as one of the terrorists...

Author: By Dina Guzovsky, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: American Dreamz | 4/20/2006 | See Source »

...reputation on trivial issues and repeatedly imploded amid avoidable public embarrassments. Seiji Maehara, 43, whom Ozawa now succeeds, was the most recent casualty. He committed political seppuku when a scandalous e-mail introduced by a DPJ member purporting to prove an LDP member's corruption turned out to be fake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Get This Party Started | 4/17/2006 | See Source »

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