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More than a custodian of his father’s works, Nabokov has become a jet-setter on his own, splitting his time between Palm Beach and Montreux, Switzerland. Like his father, he plays the prima donna to the media, insisting on interviewing through e-mail with The Crimson and crafting answers in advance for Russian television...
...only makes sense that PARIS HILTON-a hotel heiress, a party princess and a being whose very life force appears to come from flashbulbs-would get engaged to ... well, herself. Fiance PARIS LATSIS is a pretty, jet-setting heir. Bingo. Hilton's mom says she's never seen her daughter happier. Here's a cheat sheet on how to tell the two Parises apart...
...Initially US intelligence thought the SAS had found Bin Laden, says Adam. A jet was called and dropped a 500kg bomb but it exploded over 100 meters away in a creek bed. Follow up air-raids by A-10 warthog aircraft killed a number of suspected Al Qaeda fighters but opinions are still divided about the success of the raid...
...Since 9/11, Reagan National has been the most restricted major airport in the country, with virtually no private jet flights allowed of any kind and with the most stringent security measures imposed on commercial flights in and out. Traveling in and out of Reagan, for example, airline passengers must remain in their seats within 30 minutes of take off and landing. Reagan has also been the site of two recent security scares when small propeller aircraft unintentionally entered the restricted airspace around Washington and were chased by military fighter jets. Both planes landed without incident...
...were the planners, who endowed the Freedom Tower with security features for everything from burning jet fuel to anthrax spores, unprepared for a Ryder Truck filled with explosives? Developers say the NYPD simply ambushed them with shifting demands. Police say they'd been privately raising these concerns for months before their official report. And public watchdogs say the finger-pointing itself is symptomatic of the real problem. "There's a confidence problem here, but it's not about security," says Nikki Stern, executive director of the Families of September 11. "It's about leadership...