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...fine. He spoke three local dialects, had lived in Mindanao for almost a decade and was raising four kids with his Philippine Muslim wife. Selamah, a Palestinian carrying Iraqi travel documents, worked as the head teacher at a Koranic recitation center attached to a local orphanage. Datu Tucao Mastura, mayor of the nearby municipality of Sultaan Kudarat, says, "There was never any suggestion he was doing anything except his work at the school...
Tuesday’s event can hardly be called civil disobedience. The former mayor of Cambridge, Anthony D. Gallucio, and Cambridge Democratic State Rep. Jarrett T. Barrios ’90 were on hand to encourage the protesters. The police briefed the protesters before their arrest on the procedures they would follow. Like the Mass. Hall student sit-in last spring, the event had the air of a worker’s carnival, not a grim display of resolve in the face...
Also on hand were local politicians including former Cambridge Mayor Anthony D. Galluccio and Cambridge Democratic State Rep. Jarrett T. Barrios ’90, who led chants...
...Schuller case. "I have never heard of this affair," Chirac said, his leg bouncing nervously under the table. "I may have happened to be in the same place as him, but I didn't know him personally." The following day, Le Monde published a photograph of Chirac - then mayor of Paris - shaking hands with Schuller at city hall. According to a poll published in the daily newspaper Le Parisien, 67% of people found Chirac's denial unconvincing...
Schuller's testimony is expected to back up allegations made by Jean-Claude Méry, a real-estate promoter and ex-rpr official, in a videotaped confession recorded before his death from cancer in 1999. As a covert funding organizer, Méry explained how - while Chirac was mayor of Paris - tenders for public works contracts in the city were systematically rigged in return for kickbacks. "We only worked on the orders of Mr. Chirac," said Méry, who described handing over $665,000 in cash in Chirac's presence when he was Prime Minister...