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...detained Lepore and Paladino and confiscated their passports so they could not leave the country. But after they had been cooped for two months in a Rio hotel, a judge earlier this month issued a habeus corpus order to return their confiscated passports. Before they could get on a plane home, however, police rushed to formally charge them - even before a formal inquiry report was completed. The best reason they could find was, in Craesmeyer?s words, that the pilots "didn't see that the transponder wasn't working and didn't take any action...
Following the postponement of an summer trip to Israel this July due to the country’s war with Hezbollah militants, 28 undergraduates will finally board a plane for Israel today. Students participating in the Harvard Israel Leadership Initiative, a 12-day traveling study seminar, will have the chance to “explore the challenges that face Israel” today as well as connect with local communities, according to Michael Simon, Associate Director of the Harvard Hillel. The ten students who were orginally slated to arrive in Israel on July 30 were notified less than a week...
SNAKES ON A PLANE, AUDIENCE DISEMBARKS...
When the words Snakes on a Plane hitthe Internet, you could almost hear the hisses of delight. Net users celebrated the old-school cheesiness of the movie's premise and urged the studio, New Line Cinema, to amp up the film's violence. But like snakes, Internet hype can't be tamed, and like flying, it's not that easy to get right. When Snakes finally opened, it was box-office venom, taking in a mere $34 million, not even half of cheapie horror flick...
...most inspired political acts of 2006 occurred on Oct. 8, when newly elected Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe stepped off a plane in Beijing. Relations between China and Japan were at their lowest ebb in decades, largely because Abe's predecessor Junichiro Koizumi had repeatedly visited the Yasukuni Shrine, which honors Japan's war dead, including 14 Class-A war criminals. Abe's momentous trip to China broke a political stalemate between Asia's two leading powers and portended closer economic and diplomatic ties between these historical rivals...