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...Things to All Men Blair says the Met has learned the lessons of Stockwell. But a former counterterrorism investigator from France suggests it has not addressed its structural problems. "The Metropolitan Police has always struck me as iconic of English society," the French investigator says. "It merges absolute professionalism, discipline and hard, careful work with a kind of organization that creates disorganization. Services aren't sufficiently interconnected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Case for Scotland Yard | 8/6/2008 | See Source »

This year's Voorkamerfest, which runs from Sept. 5-7, features enough acts for seven bus routes stopping at venues ranging from colonial bungalows to corrugated shacks. The performers include Belgian pop singer Eva de Roovere, Zimbabwean poet Outspoken and the French-Swiss-Indian dance combo of Isabelle Chaffaud, Jérôme Meyer and Surajit Das. That's white, black and brown, having fun together in the old apartheid heartland. Viva Evita! www.voorkamerfest-darling.co.za

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Voorkamerfest: Home Theater | 8/6/2008 | See Source »

...dominating online romance in the U.S., where two-thirds of its 1.3 million paid subscribers live. Match is all business, and that business is landing a mate. On Meetic, the cyber chestnuts are always in blossom, and love is as much a game as a goal. In 2005, a French cad named Lewis Wingrove published a blog and later a book graphically cataloguing a year's worth of Meetic conquests (52 dates, 27 of which finished "sous la couette" - under the quilt.) Meetic founder and chief executive Marc Simoncini went ballistic and briefly considered suing. The young women in Meetic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Monsieur Cupid: Dating Online | 8/6/2008 | See Source »

...pressure and protest from Italy led ruling French conservatives to scrap the Mitterrand amnesty in 2002, thus leaving Petrella and scores of other repented Red Brigades militants in France vulnerable to arrest under outstanding Italian warrants. That's precisely what happened to Petrella in August, 2007 following a routine police road check; she's been in prison ever since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France Frees Sick Italian Terrorist | 8/5/2008 | See Source »

...That fate provoked protest from French leftists and intellectuals who believe France had unilaterally and unfairly changed the rules on rehabilitated radicals. In recent weeks appeals for special consideration for Petrella have struck considerably close to home for French President Nicolas Sarkozy - and may have been partially responsible in altering the position of justice officials towards Petrella's case. In June, Sarkozy's Italian-born wife Carla Bruni told the daily Libération that Petrella "is ill, and should be cared for the way any human should. And prison isn't the ideal place for that". The following month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France Frees Sick Italian Terrorist | 8/5/2008 | See Source »

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