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...asked Judge Horn in his decision, “be any freedom of press or speech if one must reduce his vocabulary to innocuous euphemism?” The North Beach poets danced in court that day, and the word of cultural liberation spread all the way to Big Sur...
...Five years ago, Sunny Tours' catch-it-while-you-can marketing wouldn't have been very effective. In the early 20th century, Kep-sur-Mer was established as a getaway for French civil servants running the colony, and it served as an enclave for rich Khmer after independence in 1953. (The former King, Norodom Sihanouk, built a royal residence there that, like most of the old estates in town, now stands empty.) The holidays ended in the 1970s after an American bombing campaign brought the first wave of more than two decades of war, including the Khmer Rouge-led genocide...
Running for office in Neuilly-sur-Seine ought to be a slam dunk for any well-connected conservative politician. The Paris suburb is an oasis of affluence, distinguished families and ponderous quantities of old money, and has always been kind to candidates of the right. It was here, some 25 years ago, that an ambitious conservative youth leader named Nicolas Sarkozy ran for mayor, and for the next 19 years Neuilly's unwavering support served as the base of his campaign for higher office. So, it may be a sign of how far the fortunes of (now President) Sarkozy have...
...Eric Volz was found guilty of murdering his Nicaraguan ex-girlfriend Doris Ivania Jimenez. She had been found hogtied, raped and strangled to death in the back of her clothing boutique in the touristy beach town of San Juan del Sur on Nicaragua's Pacific coast. However, a second man, Julio Martin Chamorro, a small-town bully with the reputation of being a "tourist leech," stood trial alongside Volz and was also found guilty of the murder. Both he and Volz were sentenced to 30 years in prison...
Despite the anger expressed on blogs and in statements to the press, the rest of the country remained calm this week as most prepared for Christmas vacation starting this Friday. Even in San Juan del Sur, where Volz had once lived with Jimenez, American expats reported life as usual and no hostility toward gringos, adding that most people there had already tried to put the Volz case behind them...