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...expect if afterward delinquents are set free again," he said. As a Minister's criticisms of a state institution, his comments drew a swift rebuke from many fronts, including President Jacques Chirac, who said lawmakers need to "respect judges' independence." But acting like a candidate already on the campaign trail, Sarkozy pre-empted such reprimands. "The French know I'm right," he said earlier, and "it's the judgment of the French people that counts...
...Your senses stay alert at these altitudes, and that alone must help prolong life. It worked for our forebears at least. Remain attentive and you might make it on the trail to Oregon. Lose focus for a moment and wham! - you're bear meat...
...Summer Journey double issue tracing Marco Polo's epic trail followed an intellectual path, exploring the ways in which East and West now meet each other. In response, readers shared tales of travel, thoughts on ideas that changed the world and meditations about noodles Paul Smethurst's essay "A revolutionary from Venice" [Aug. 7] pointed out that, before Marco Polo shed some light on the subject, the Western (Christian) world's geographic and political center had been Jerusalem. That reminded me of Copernicus' famous assertion that the sun, not Earth, is at the center of the heavens. Both discoveries were...
Just weeks after reviving the public's interest in a case many had long forgotten, investigators now say the trail for JonBenet Ramsey's killer has gone as cold as ever. After years without a serious suspect, the abrupt dismissal of the burgeoning case against admitted pedophile John Mark Karr has made investigators wonder what's next. "There's a very high level of frustration. But we still very much hope it will be solved," said Boulder County District Attorney Mary Lacy, sounding defensive in a hastily convened press conference to explain how the case against Karr disintegrated. But Lacy...
...moved in 1986 to Japan, where he began his Projects for Extraterrestrials, artworks designed to be large and loud enough to communicate with outer space. Project to Extend the Great Wall of China by 10,000 Meters, for example, laid a trail of fire more than six miles beyond the wall's western terminus. Another project, Transient Rainbow, celebrated the Museum of Modern Art's temporary relocation from Manhattan to Queens with a seven-color arc of fireworks over New York City's East River...