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...CAPTURED. CHHOUK RIN, 51, former Khmer Rouge commander convicted in absentia in 2002 for his role in a deadly train raid; in Anlong Veng, Cambodia. In 1994 fighters led by Chhouk Rin attacked a train bound for the coastal city of Sihanoukville, killing 13 Cambodians and abducting Frenchman Jean-Michel Braquet, Briton Mark Slater and Australian David Wilson. The three backpackers were executed after ransom negotiations collapsed weeks later. Sentenced to life in prison but free while his case was being appealed, Chhouk Rin fled after the Supreme Court upheld his conviction and issued a warrant for his arrest...
...CONVICTED. 43 of 47 defendants in France's biggest corruption trial, including former ministers MICHEL ROUSSIN, 66, MICHEL GIRAUD, 76, and GUY DRUT, 54, who is also a member of the International Olympic Committee; in Paris. Punishments ranged from fines to suspended jail sentences for involvement in a public-works scam that took kickbacks worth more than $80 million to renovate Parisian schools. Several of the defendants were allies of President Jacques Chirac, who was mayor of Paris at the time; he was protected from giving evidence by presidential immunity...
...story is really heading? Too bad. Campbell doesn’t care much about cogency; he’s too busy jumping hyperactively from plotline to plotline. The movie grudgingly develops a storyline in its second half. Government agents force Elena to divorce Zorro and to seduce Archduke Wilhelm (Michel Bos), a member of a European guild plotting to destroy the United States. Zorro must stop the dastardly scheme: in come the sabers and muskets! However, these badly-choreographed, ten-on-one battles are sickeningly artificial. Enjoying them is less a question of suspending belief than throwing...
...country on the consequences of environmental risks, and has been a critic of what he sees as President Bush’s lack of concern for global warming. “I think the work that he did on the Kyoto Protocol was almost revolutionary.” said Michel Nischan, who is on the Center’s advising board and also served as a chef at the event. “It is an honor to receive this award from the Center,” Gore said in a press release Friday. Gore, through a spokesperson, declined...
...DIED. JEAN-MICHEL FOLON, 71, Belgian-born painter and graphic artist whose work was familiar to millions from poster campaigns and magazine covers for The New Yorker, Esquire and TIME; in Monaco. An unwilling student of architecture, Folon left his hometown of Uccle, near Brussels, for Paris at the age of 21, but first found success in the U.S. with his eye-catching, whimsical pictures of birds, flying men, rainbows and billowy landscapes. Always prolific, Folon's style survived translation onto postage stamps, giant subway murals and, in later years, to animated films and sculpture...