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...behind the wheel in February 2000. Tests showed Colin's blood-alcohol level was around three times the legal limit; the appeals court meanwhile ruled the couple - who contest the charges - should have alerted police after they failed to dissuade him from driving. The charges carry maximum sentences of five years in prison and a €75,000 fine. With nearly 50% of all auto fatalities alcohol related, previously lenient courts now appear ready to punish cavalier French attitudes toward drinking and driving. Ironically, both Angélique and Jean-Sébastien have themselves been victims of drunk drivers...
...FRANCE ILE CHANTEMESLE Who'd have thought you could rent an island just 40 minutes from downtown Paris? With a maximum capacity of 12, the guest house is surrounded by orchards and parks. There's also a tennis court, swimming pool and two small motorboats to whiz you around the Seine. A week's stay will set you back...
...unanswered question is whether professional terrorists, particularly those linked to al-Qaeda, have infiltrated the insurgency. Senior U.S. intelligence officials say a small number of dedicated terrorists slipped into the country just after the U.S. invasion. "They are burrowing way down, looking for opportunities to strike for maximum political impact," contends Senator Jack Reed of Rhode Island, a Democrat who toured Iraq with colleague Hillary Clinton...
...wealthiest, preserve the cuts that help the middle class and offer new tax cuts that help middle-class families achieve some financial security again. I will match every $1 in private savings with $1 in refundable tax credits, up to $1,000 each year. A worker who saves the maximum under this plan every year from age 25 to retirement will have a nest egg of $200,000. To help families realize the American dream, I’ll also give a $5,000 tax credit for struggling families to put towards the down payment on their first home...
...understand that this job was not part of the normal market of managing huge sums of money, and that they might view it as something of an honor to be able to do the job, and in return for the honor, they would not be trying to secure the maximum possible amount of compensation,” Kaiser said. “I just don’t think that it has to be this way to secure reasonable returns—there’s no way to prove that there’s a linear relationship between...