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...arrested in Sydney; eight in Melbourne. Most were of Lebanese background and aged between 20 and 31. In most cases the suspects were seized as they slept and surrendered without a struggle, but in Sydney's southwest, Omar Baladjam allegedly shot at police when confronted walking near the Green Valley Mosque. Police say he pulled a handgun from his backpack and fired, wounding an officer in the hand. Police returned fire, hitting the spray painter and sometime television actor in the neck. A few suburbs away, police called in a helicopter with a heat-seeking camera to help locate father...
...bunker; Mussolini's corpse swung from a gas-station awning in Milan; but Franco still lies in a grand tomb funded and carefully maintained by the country he subjugated. On Sunday, the 30th anniversary of his death, several thousand Franco supporters will make their annual journey to the Valley of the Fallen, some 50 km northwest of Madrid, where a colossal basilica is carved into the craggy Guadarrama Mountains. There, they will lay wreaths and offer fascist salutes, as they do every year. But this time, their pilgrimage will take place in a country that is ready to confront...
...Civil War and Francoism Commission, which among other tasks will advise the government on whether and how it should alter the Valley of the Fallen, has so far been silent. The Commission was set up by Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero in July 2004 to consider appropriate ways to remember victims of both the Civil War and Franco's dictatorship. It has twice postponed releasing its recommendations. "In the course of the Commission's work, more and more questions have arisen," says Ana Salado, spokeswoman for Deputy Prime Minister María Teresa Fernández...
...Warner Bros. to give him an unlimited research budget and no deadline. For a year and a half, he read books on the Middle East in his Malibu beach house and then, at his leisure, jetted off to meet people he had read about. He crossed Lebanon's Bekaa Valley on the first anniversary of 9/11, dined with men now suspected of killing former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri, and sipped cappuccino in the kitchen of former Defense Policy Board chairman Richard Perle. Being a guy from Hollywood was often all it took to get people talking. "Steve...
Some of that informality reveals the influence of Silicon Valley, where Zander spent more than 15 years at Sun Microsystems and then a private equity firm. He is trying to bring some of the Valley's spirit to the Chicago suburbs. He has challenged everyone--not just the mobile-phone designers--to come up with Motorola's next iconic product. Rau says his team was inspired by the Razr to develop the "zero-footprint base station," equipment for mobile-phone carriers that takes up less real estate than a standard cell-phone tower...