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...arranged for land to be set aside for a "keeping place" for the remains. "The stuff he knows about rock art and Aborigines was taught to him by my family. If they weren't our bodies, I wouldn't be running around trying to get them back.'' Fraser's request is simple: "We want our people back in the area they came from and let them rest in peace." There's likely to be more conflict among the living before the dead gain their repose...
...suddenly disinvited from a scheduled April 21 appearance on 100 Minutes for Convincing, a political show on the state-owned France 2 network. Marc Tessier, president of France Télévisions, which runs France 2, denied reports that he'd retracted the invitation at the government's request, saying he merely wanted to "avoid polemics." But Yves Loiseau, a France 2 journalist who represents employees on France Télévisions' supervisory board, accuses Tessier of "changing political guests to comply with the powers that be." Says Loiseau: "Maybe he represents the major stakeholder, but that doesn...
Simcox bristles at the term vigilante, saying that his group is not detaining anyone but only fulfilling the President's post--Sept. 11 request that all Americans remain vigilant--and, in the process, providing a release valve for popular outrage. U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials, meanwhile, tell TIME they will announce a "significant increase in resources" this week to address the influx of illegal immigrants still crossing by land in Arizona. --By Brian Bennett
...shipment and the price at which the firm planned to sell the bras: 10 million of them, wholesaling for just 50 cents a dozen. Italians buy about 40 million bras a year, so the 10 million represents three months of total Italian sales. For Paolo Zegna, that request to the Italian government confirmed his worst fears. "It's predatory pricing," fumes Zegna, president of the Italian textile trade group Sistema Moda Italia and co-chief executive of the Italian menswear giant founded by his grandfather, Ermenegildo Zegna. If such practices continue, he says, "in the coming months, many Italian textile...
...party of theocracy." Operation Rescue founder Randall Terry, acting as spokesman for the parents of the severely brain damaged woman and making even his counterparts on the conservative right wince in embarrassment, inveighed in a mass e-mailing that Florida State Circuit Court Judge George Greer, who approved the request by Schiavo's husband to let her die, "has shown more courage in trying to kill Terri Schiavo than Governor [Jeb] Bush has shown in trying to save her." Just a few days before Easter, Brother Paul O'Donnell, a Franciscan monk and spiritual adviser to Robert and Mary Schindler...