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...week there were fears that hasty arrests would be made to appease Jakarta and an outraged public in Australia, which suffered an estimated 96 casualties. Instead, the investigation has been characterized by patience and precision. With the support of the Australian Federal Police and counterterrorism and forensics experts from Scotland Yard and the FBI, Pastika has methodically assembled evidence from the crime scene. The picture he has painted so far is chilling...
...with the ease of someone who regularly must enlighten the geographically challenged: Yes, it is its own country—but unfortunately not yet a state (it was colonized by Denmark and has never fully seceded from it)—comprised of 18 islands located between Iceland and Scotland. It may be loosely considered part of Scandinavia. Indeed, Mikkelsen fits the blond-haired, clear-blue-eyed, fair-skinned stereotype and speaks Danish and English fluently in addition to Faroese—ironic, because he feels passionately about the Faroe Islands’ independence movement from Denmark, and applied...
...Cannes. Her second short, Kill the Day, a nightmarish junkie tale, won the Clermont-Ferrand Prix du Jury, and 1997's Gasman, about the tangled relationships of a family on its way to a Christmas party, reclaimed the Cannes prize. It also won her an invitation from BBC Scotland to write and direct Ratcatcher. Her work to date may be art-house, but Ramsay wants to be in the cineplex, too. "I also want to make films people want to go and see," she says. "I don't see myself as being élitist in any respect." Ramsay...
...People came from all over the place,” said Olken, chair of the committee that planned the reunion. “People came in from as far as Thailand and Scotland...
...Qaeda or other terrorist groups have been arrested. European governments--some of which were aggressively dismissive of the terrorist threat a year ago--are now actively involved in the crackdown. They've done a "fantastic job," says Magnus Ranstorp, a terrorism analyst at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, "unearthing cells, sharing intelligence, doing pre-emptive arrests and raids." An American diplomat in Europe adds that law-enforcement authorities in Southeast Asia are cooperating with the U.S. far more than before. "The effort worldwide and in Afghanistan," the diplomat says, "did a better job of tearing the guts...