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DIED. Maurice Papon, 96, French bureaucrat turned Paris police chief, convicted in 1998 of complicity in crimes against humanity; outside Paris. As a high-ranking officer of the Vichy regime based in southwestern France, he directed the roundup of some 1,600 Jews, whom he deported to German concentration camps. Papon, who said he had no idea what the Nazis planned for those French deportees and who was released from prison in 2002 for medical reasons, maintained in 2001 that he was "in no way responsible" for the murders of Jews...
...happy to see the old Leica camera in TIME'S picture roundup [Dec. 18]. It was completely appropriate that the best photos of 2006 were introduced by the camera of the last century! The Leica camera was the ultimate tool for many great professional photographers as well as the ultimate dream of so many great--and less great--amateurs. Notwithstanding the often superb quality of its competitors, anybody with a heart for photography has to admit that there was one camera prized above all: the Leica. INGEMAR LINDAHL Lidkoping, Sweden...
Assess your celebrity intelligence quotient with this week's roundup of supermodel shenanigans, TV-actor announcements and pop-diva cancellations...
...derail the British roundup, Chertoff had to wait until the early hours of Thursday morning after all the London arrests were made before notifying U.S. airports of the threat, say senior DHS officals. When it became clear the arrests would be wrapped up around 1 a.m Washington time, Chertoff got on a conference call with his Homeland Security Advisory Committee to approve changing the threat level. Then calls went out to the airlines, airline security companies and labor unions affected by the changes, as well as to members of Congress...
...annual roundup of the 100 most influential people provoked lively challenges to our choices and keen appreciation for the diverse talents that are promoting change throughout the world...