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FRANCE Terror Setup A French-Algerian airport baggage handler, suspected of being a terrorist when he was arrested after weapons and explosives were found in the boot of his car, was released from jail. Police say he was the victim of a setup. Abderazak Besseghir argued that he was being framed by the family of his late wife, a claim substantiated when a witness who told police he saw Besseghir handling the guns in the car park of Charles de Gaulle airport admitted to being part of a plot to implicate...
...ally Abdullah Gul, who took the job until the legal problems could be sorted out. The changes should do away with the anomaly of a leader who "clearly holds power" but no accountability, says analyst Ismet Berkan in Istanbul. "It will be a huge step to normalizing the political setup." - By Andrew Purvis THE CHANNEL Shipwreck Ahoy! Landlubbers and sea dogs alike could only shake their heads at the New Year's Day news that the tanker Vicky had collided with the submerged wreck of the car transporter Tricolor in the English Channel. A spokesman for the British maritime union...
...nostalgia-oriented television shows. There were reunions of The Cosby Show, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, M*A*S*H and numerous others (for God's sake, even Alf made a comeback, if only in commercials). But if The Bachelor was retro--even Paleolithic--in its harem-style courtship setup, that's not the same as saying it was nostalgic. Rather, it was an example of the ambivalence underlying most of today's so-called nostalgia: the past is a nice place to visit, but we don't really want to live there...
...setup took so long that I never made it to either Grand Central or Times Square. But I did manage to pick a favorite: the $150 HBH-30 from Sony Ericsson. The sound was loud and clear, and the headset fit comfortably around my ear. Unfortunately, you probably won't be able to use this headset with your cell phone because it works only with phones like Sony Ericsson's T68i and T300 and Nokia's 6310i, which come equipped with Bluetooth. More Bluetooth phones and headsets are due out in early 2003, from Nokia, Motorola and others...
...Dom’s the best setup man and puck carrier that I’ve ever played with,” Bernakevitch said. “I just have to get open and create space...