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...MARRIED. PHYLLIS LYON, 79, and DEL MARTIN, 83, founders of the U.S.'s first lesbian organization, 49 years ago; becoming the first to take advantage of San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom's instruction to the county clerk's office to begin issuing same-sex marriage licenses (in defiance of a Californian law); in San Francisco. Hundreds of couples have followed suit. Opponents of the licenses are seeking a restraining order to prevent the city from granting more...
...WANTED. CHARLES TAYLOR, 55, former President of Liberia; after being indicted by a U.N.-backed court in Sierra Leone on charges that include crimes against humanity; by Interpol in Lyon, France. Taylor, whose rule was characterized by civil war and ethnic conflict, was forced to step down in August under international pressure. He currently lives in exile in Nigeria. The charges stem from Taylor's alleged training of rebels in Sierra Leone who engaged in the torture and murder of civilians...
...Crimson spent the waning days of August—from August 15-28—playing two Division I clubs in Paris, Lyon and Switzerland, as the European teams prepared to start the season...
...cast is headed by James Spader as defense lawyer Alan Shore, an ethically challenged former embezzler who uses his powers of sleaze to help his colleagues, his clients and his self-interest. The gamble seems to have worked. The show topped NBC's heavily touted Rob Lowe drama, The Lyon's Den, and Spader's complex, even sympathetic performance gives the show more interest than it has had in years. (A stunt casting turn by Sharon Stone helped too.) The old characters, Kelley says, "would always do the right moral thing at the end of the day. That occasioned...
...DIED. MARC-VIVIEN FOE, 28, Cameroon-born international footballer, after collapsing during the semifinal against Colombia in the Confederations Cup, of suspected heart failure or aneurysm; in Lyon. A member of Cameroon's victorious team at the African Cup of Nations in 2002, the midfielder spent most of his professional career with French clubs Lens and Lyon?winning the French-league title with both teams?and with England's West Ham United and, most recently, Manchester City (on loan from Lyon). Fo?'s death stoked criticism that crowded football schedules are becoming dangerously taxing for players and renewed criticism...