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...Maria Giacoma, an audience member who was visiting from Atlanta, Georgia, said that seeing Franken was “a real treat...
...Tonight show is becoming themeless and error prone. "They're flubbing this thing big time," says a longtime G.O.P. strategist. Former Los Angeles mayor Richard Riordan, who decided not to enter the race when Schwarzenegger got in, has urged him to be more open with the media. Even wife Maria Shriver has complained to a friend that her husband is being overmanaged and overprotected by his advisers, many of whom he inherited from unpopular former Governor Pete Wilson. Schwarzenegger is said to be working 18-hour days, boning up on issues, but little of that time is spent in public...
...Staff writer Maria S. Pedroza can be reached at mpedroza@fas.harvard.edu...
...Last week, police raided Chimatpada, a maze of slum houses, cheap restaurants and noisy industrial workshops, bursting into the pink-walled shanty where the Hanifs lived. Inside, says chief investigator Rakesh Maria, they found 22 detonators, 235 gelatin sticks, 14 timing devices, wires and soldering equipment. As the authorities tell it, the Hanifs collaborated with a 26-year-old embroiderer, Arshat Ansari, to pull off the Aug. 25 bombings that killed 52 and injured 175 in Bombay. While Ansari allegedly placed his bomb in a taxi at Zaveri Bazaar, a crowded jewelry market, police say the Hanifs had packed explosives...
...Police say the Hanifs and Ansari have confessed. In custody, says Maria, Hanif and Ansari have admitted that they belong to the Gujarat Muslim Revenge Force, a previously unknown group dedicated to avenging last year's massacres of Muslims by Hindu mobs in the western state of Gujarat. In addition to the most recent blasts, police say the Hanifs and Ansari have also been charged with?and confessed to?planting a bomb on a bus in the Bombay suburb of Ghatkopar on July 28, which killed three and injured 42, and to planting another bus bomb that failed to explode...