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...list created by U.S. authorities, which singles out passengers who are potential terrorist threats, is the target of frequent criticism that it's incomplete and unreliable. But that hasn't stopped it from expanding dramatically. Aviation sources say the list has grown to more than 31,000, up from 19,000 last September. And a little noticed incident on April 8, involving a Dutch KLM 747 flight from Amsterdam to Mexico City, may result in the list being used even more aggressively. The plane was forbidden by American authorities to enter U.S. airspace because the Department of Homeland Security discovered...
...spilled over sea walls to flood the city with sand-clouded water and then swept out just as suddenly, leaving behind a visceral feeling of foreboding. For what has the more thoughtful of Malé's 80,000 or so residents worried is that such intrusions will become more frequent, not because of the sudden onslaught of tsunamis but as a result of the slow, relentless effects of global warming on the sea that surrounds them...
...could such horrors have gone undetected for so long? Twenty-one of the 23 families implicated were under the supervision of social workers, who paid frequent visits to their homes, offering advice on employment and finances. One teacher dropped by some of the children's homes regularly as part of France's "educational assistance" services for students needing remedial help. Three of the accused men had been convicted previously of pedophilia, including Marine V.'s grandfather, who in 1991 was sentenced to 13 years for raping his son. Officials from the regional council that oversees Angers' social services told Time...
Heavily influenced by the films of indie-pioneer John Cassavetes and starring Cassavetes as Mikey and his frequent star, Peter Falk (Columbo) as his friend, Nicky, May traces one night in New York City among the titular amigos. Mikey is fleeing from the mob he betrayed with the help of the only person he thinks he can trust, his boyhood friend and fellow Mafioso, Nicky. But can Mikey trust Nicky...
...final and unlikeliest mentor: a prostitute incarcerated in the Greenwich Village Women’s House of Detention, the House of D from which this film draws its name. Played by Erika Badu, Lady—she never gives Tommy her real name—intersperses her counsel with frequent requests that Tommy buy her a dimebag in Washington Square Park. Nonetheless, she does give serious thought to Tommy’s problems and she offers him valuable life lessons...