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...REFUSED ENTRY. JOSE BOVÉ, 52; to the U.S.; in New York City. Due to deliver a speech at Cornell University, the French antiglobalization activist was detained and questioned upon arrival at J.F.K. Airport before being flown back to France. U.S. officials said Bové-who was jailed in France for destroying genetically modified crops and demolishing a McDonald's restaurant-was barred from entering as he failed to mention his previous convictions on an immigration form...
...When I was in government, I was fond of warning that...the world economy could not fly forever on a single American engine. Frankly, it has flown further and longer than I would have anticipated,” said Summers at the session, according to the forum’s website...
...When I was in government, I was fond of warning that…the world economy could not fly forever on a single American engine. Frankly, it has flown further and longer than I would have anticipated,” said Summers, who is one of four co-chairs of the group’s annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland...
...worried that renewal of their gambling compact would be blocked by hostile local authorities?and that their casino business would be eaten away by others looking to get a piece of the action. So tribal leaders were eager to hear from the handsome, dandily dressed visitor who had flown in from Washington with his partner on a private jet, shared some of their fried chicken in the council hall, then waited for them to turn off the tape recorder that they used for official business...
...activity.Two weeks ago, during a routine day of driving his Humvee patrolling the streets, Morris’ vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb, according to his friend and classmate, Second Lieutenant James S. Foreman ’04.Morris, who had been sitting in the passenger seat, was initially flown to a hospital in a Green Zone in Baghdad, he said. He was then flown to a hospital in Germany and finally to the U.S., where he arrived at what he considers home—the base of the 101st Airborne Division in Fort Campbell, Ky.Morris said...