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...located on the northern side and is largely populated by native Viequenses. The island's draw is privacy and nature, rather than nightlife. But the Media Luna restaurant serves a unique cuisine blended with Indian flavors, such as a curried red snapper filet and cannelloni with spiced lamb. La Sirena, in the south-side town of Esperanza, serves a simple but addictive mahi-mahi sandwich on toasted bread for lunch...
Those who send spam for a living contend that some vigilantes, in their antispam fervor, take it too far. "I have had death threats against my family," complains Robert (Bubba) Catts, a former used-car salesman and professional bull rider from Shreveport, La. Catts, who runs a 10 million--message-a-day direct-marketing business and clears up to $700,000 a year, was exposed when his address and phone number were listed, along with those of 179 other "top spammers," on the British-based website Spamhaus.org...
Cats had an even more negative reaction. When they heard the news, they called their own meeting--in Paris, of course--to denounce canine subservience to the human hyperpower. (Their manifesto--La Condition Feline--can still be found in provincial bookstores...
ARRESTED. DERRICK TODD LEE, 34, for five murders in Baton Rouge, La.; in Atlanta. Police said Lee's DNA linked him to the "Louisiana Slasher" serial killings that kept Baton Rouge on edge for 18 months. He is also a suspect in several earlier murders...
...Vive la France!" declared George W. Bush in an interview with French television as the President and his entourage rolled into Europe last week. Like most of those attending the European summits with Bush - in Krakow, St. Petersburg, and at the G-8 in Evian - the Americans were playing down differences and talking up the need for greater transatlantic cooperation. Washington's goal: to allay European fears that victory in Iraq will tempt the U.S. to run roughshod over world opinion. "It isn't the power of the U.S. that needs to be checked," cooed Bush's national security adviser...