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...setting 34-year-old was the source of a fight between Woods and his wife Elin Nordegren that led to the golfer's crashing his SUV outside his Florida mansion early on Nov. 27. (The multimillionaire athlete will be issued a citation for reckless driving, according to local authorities.) Dubbed a "New York City party girl," Uchitel insists the Enquirer's report is false and says she has met Woods only on two brief occasions. Nevertheless, the maelstrom of attention surrounding the clean-cut Woods' accident has turned Uchitel into a full-blown media star - at least for the moment...
...lanes with socks drying on bamboo poles and friendly bakso (meatball) vendors sucking on spicy, crackling kretek. They'll smilingly guide you to the still standing, ramshackle house of its most famous onetime resident, at No. 8, Gang (Lane) III - although Pram didn't really do much to deserve local affection. Not only did he quickly tire of his first wife and move out, but in "My Kampung" he skewers his neighbors as dim-witted and superstitious. An ailing print setter, for one, concludes that his baby's death from tetanus has sated the Archangel Gabriel; therefore, he thinks...
...Monumen Nasional - founding father Sukarno's heroic white obelisk. From its observatory deck, you'll see the Kali Besar, Jakarta' big canal dug during the city's prosperous days as a tropical spice-trading port, running north. South is Menteng, the early 20th century planned garden neighborhood where local élite, like the late Suharto's clan, reside. For them Jakarta again is a town of joy, booming with steel, glass and shining retail spaces. But Tales of Djakarta, in which the poor bathe in the canal's toxic "yellowish water" and Japanese officers fill Menteng's villas with comfort...
...believe its promises and if they don't see that it can deliver, the deployment of more foreign soldiers will be a waste of time, and lives. "One of the reasons that the Taliban are able to get a lot of assistance from the people is that the local authorities are corrupt," says Sabit. "Let's fight them first, then the Americans can come in and fight the terrorists...
...pardoned and released by Ahmadinejad after being held for two weeks. Three years earlier, eight British servicemen snatched in the same area were also accused of trespassing. In both cases, the British military personnel were paraded on Iranian television. "Whether it's premeditated or the actions of an enthusiastic local officer," says Richard Schofield, senior lecturer in boundary studies at King's College London, the seizure of foreigners usually occurs "at a time when [Iran has] been under some international pressure. There's always been a bit of a linkage here...