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...iron bar. Their would-be victim, Franny Armstrong, director of the film The Age of Stupid and founder of the 10:10 campaign to persuade governments, organizations and individuals to cut carbon emissions 10% in 2010, actually cast her ballot for Johnson's rival, Ken Livingstone, in last year's election. But after Johnson's daring rescue, she told the British daily Guardian, "If you find yourself down a dark alleyway and in trouble, I think Boris would be of more use than...
After a seven-year legal battle, the charges were dropped against the family. Marroquín married his longtime Colombian girlfriend and now, along with an Ecuadorian partner, designs buildings in Buenos Aires. Still, his upbringing among fabulously wealthy criminals can show through in his blueprints. "He's a very good architect," say Entel, the filmmaker. "But sometimes you can see the way he grew up around Pablo Escobar reflected in his ideas. Because I would never think of designing furniture for inside a swimming pool...
...interview with Piers Morgan in GQ, saying, "I don't think people want politicians to be some sort of subset of the entertainment business." Polls of Londoners and Conservative grass-roots voters suggest that's not entirely true of Boris. A poll of London voters taken this spring, a year after Johnson moved into City Hall, found 46% to be satisfied with the way he is doing his job, compared with 21% who were dissatisfied. Johnson scored a hefty 92% satisfaction rating among Conservative voters in another survey marking his first year in office, conducted by the website conservativehome.com. (Watch...
...hesitate in his reply. "Why would we? What would be the use in that?" Instead, he said his staff would take their students to a private garden as a way to build camaraderie and spirit, a kind of Islamic field trip to celebrate the beginning of the academic year. (See a pictorial account of the legacy of Ayatullah Khomeini...
...Americans convicted, 22 were sentenced to five years in jail; Robert Seldon Lady, the agency's former station chief in Milan, was given eight years. All of the Americans, however, were tried in absentia. Defense lawyers were appointed by the court but had no contact with their clients. The lawyers have said they will appeal the verdict, which came at the end of a nearly three-year trial...