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...smart enough - and doggone it, enough people like him - to be the next U.S. Senator from Minnesota. On his final Al Franken Show, he announced that he is running to reclaim the seat that Sen. Paul Wellstone lost when he, his wife and daughter were killed in a plane crash two weeks before the 2002 election, and which was won by Republican Norm Coleman. The New York City-born Franken, whose parents moved to the Minneapolis suburb of St. Louis Park when he was four, has long honed his campaign slogan against Coleman: "I'm the New York...
...Ponto turned to pick up a vase, Klar and Mohnhaupt both opened fire, killing him. Two months later, in an attempt to spring their jailed comrades, the pair were part of a RAF team that kidnapped leading industrialist Hanns-Martin Schleyer; fellow terrorists engineered the hijacking of a Lufthansa plane. When German special forces killed three of the four hijackers and rescued the hostages in Mogadishu, Somalia, Baader and two others killed themselves in their cells; within two days of the attack at Mogadishu, investigators found Schleyer's body stuffed in the trunk of a car in France...
...known more about American politics and the eternal tensions between branches of government, he might not have been so ready to hop on a plane. Given his new ranking as a kingpin, it would have been potential political suicide for any U.S. official to make a public deal with him. Prosecutors and agents bargain with traffickers all the time, but for lighter sentences, better jails or better food. Once Noorzai was officially a villain on a wanted poster, his value as an asset was falling fast...
...early premiere of the seventh episode of the show’s third season—a long-awaited episode coming after a three-month hiatus. SECRETS AND LIES“Lost,” which attracts over sixteen million viewers every week, is about a group of 40 plane crash survivors marooned on a mysterious island in the South Pacific. “It’s kind of astonishing,” said Cuse of the show’s popularity among critics and viewers. However, the show’s producers came under heavy criticism by anxious...
...48…5:49…I jogged with my newly-made friend to the gate, feeding off his optimism the entire way.“We’re gonna make it bro,” he said jubilantly. “Our bags are on the plane, we have our boarding passes.They can’t leave without us.”My, how wrong he was. Because not only did the plane leave without us—though we arrived at the gate in time to see a guy board literally two seconds before...