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...College’s official fun squad elected its new leadership Monday night, touting plans to increase student group involvement in campus social planning...
...Circuit de Catalunya took quick steps to halt the bad behavior, removing some of the offenders and fencing off the area above the British box. On Monday, the track issued a statement saying, "The Circuit de Catalunya will not allow even the smallest incident to repeat itself within its facilities, and new measures are currently being taken into consideration in addition to those implemented." Likewise, the Royal Federation of Spanish Auto racing sharply condemned the acts, noting that it has "zero tolerance" for hooligans...
...Bets are on Gaza to explode first. Although Hamas claimed that Monday's suicide bomber in Dimona, the first in a year, came from the West Bank, the Israelis still are investigating whether he got into the country from Gaza via Egypt while the border fence at Rafah was breached. It's certainly possible. An estimated 750,000 Palestinians, half of Gaza's population, crossed into Egypt and back, primarily to shop for basic goods unavailable at home...
...Rebel forces, however, accused the French airlift of expatriates of providing cover for Chadian army attack helicopters operating out of the same base. By firing rockets at rebel formations, those helicopters allowed Déby loyalists to drive insurgent troops to the outskirts of N'Djamena on Monday. Regrouping outside the capital, rebel leaders began blaming the hundreds of dead and wounded civilians discovered in their wake by aid groups on alleged bombing raids by French warplanes on insurgent positions. France flatly denied those charges, and insisted that French troops had confined themselves to protecting foreign nationals...
...France's hands-off position may be about to change. The speed and ferocity of the initial rebel onslaught on the capital may have led Paris to consider Déby's fall imminent, and defense of his regime futile. But the rally by his forces Monday appears to have changed Sarkozy's calculations. On Monday, the U.N. Security Council adopted a resolution that "strongly condemns these attacks and all attempts at destabilization by force," but fell short of approving outside military intervention after Russia objected. Still, Sarkozy used that vote as a basis for his warning to rebels...