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...school that had been visited by two of the Sept. 11 hijackers, and German authorities say he had called the house in Hamburg used by Atta. In August, after suspicious behavior at another flight school in Minnesota, Moussaoui was arrested on immigration charges. Today he is incarcerated in the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan, refusing to speak to investigators. Daoudi, who was picked up in the British town of Leicester, sits silent in a French jail. "He isn't giving an inch," says a French official. His lawyer denies that Daoudi has ever been involved in plotting terrorist attacks...
Michael’s original inspiration came two years ago while visiting the Near Eastern section of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in his native New York. He saw the room complete with mosaic floor, velvet upholstery, and grand fountain and immediately thought, “this is where I would want to have a party.” Ever since that cathartic moment, Michael has been busy planning and his continuously revised lion-head-terra-cotta dream ultimately gave rise to his present day abode...
...been charged--one on an immigration violation and the other with lying to the grand jury about knowing two of the hijackers. Hamud says his clients knew the hijackers only casually and had nothing to do with Sept. 11. Authorities will say virtually nothing about the detainees in the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City, where Hamud's clients were held, but federal prison officials have said they are trying their best to meet inmates' needs. Attorney General John Ashcroft has instructed all Justice Department employees to ensure that detainees' rights are protected...
Yankee haters, and this would include roughly anyone who lives outside the New York metropolitan area as well as a million Mets fans within, could perhaps forgive Piniella for such blasphemy. After all, he once wore the fabled pinstripes. But as the Yankees headed into their 38th World Series, the team that only a network television executive could love became the standard bearer for a shattered city and a wounded country. Something unthinkable is happening among baseball fans: this year they happen to like New York. It happened in Chicago. It happened, gasp, in Boston, where fans sang New York...
...school that had been visited by two of the Sept. 11 hijackers, and German authorities say he had called the house in Hamburg used by Atta. In August, after suspicious behavior at another flight school in Minnesota, Moussaoui was arrested on immigration charges. Today he is incarcerated in the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan, refusing to speak to investigators. Daoudi, who was picked up in the British town of Leicester, sits silent in a French jail. "He isn't giving an inch," says a French official. His lawyer denies that Daoudi has ever been involved in plotting terrorist attacks...