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...endless contradictions that transformed Diana, Princess of Wales, from nonentity to icon during her brief life and hideous death. In the imposing, high-domed Court 1 at London's Old Bailey last week, her faithful butler Paul Burrell - the man she called "my rock" - was on trial for theft. But Diana was the hovering presence. Last year, police found in Burrell's house in Cheshire a trove of Dianiana - more than 300 items in all - stuffed into the attic and wardrobe and a bench and arrayed on the stairs: framed photos of her and Prince Charles and their boys...
...though the newspaper’s admission of “deep regret” for “gross inaccuracies and poor coverage” ought to go a long way towards alleviating long-term damage to the paper’s reputation. On the other hand, the theft of newspapers for publishing a controversial advertisement can never be excused—and it contributed nothing to the debate about reparations, the Brown Daily Herald or Horowitz’s advertisement itself. And of course, groups at Michigan are boycotting the Daily...
...also educated us fast." What investigators learned is that the success of the G.I.A. in exporting to France its jihad against the Algerian regime made the organization a logical partner for Osama bin Laden. Since 1995 al-Qaeda cells seem to have imitated the G.I.A.'s tactics: using car theft, credit-card fraud and document forgery to fund terror plots; recruiting and indoctrinating alienated youths and petty crooks from Arab communities, then using their larceny to fund jihad. Police arresting cell members for crimes like these often never make the link between the offense and the cause it serves...
...which documents were seized and arrests were made across Belfast. Two hundred officers staged raids on half a dozen homes, starting just before dawn. Among four people held for questioning was Denis Donaldson, the Sinn Fein official who runs the office at Stormont. The searches were prompted by a theft that occured just a few hundred meters from Sinn Fein's Stormont office, in a dull brick building that houses the last remaining outpost of the British central government in Northern Ireland, which still presides over the Ulster's policing and justice system. In September 2001, a messenger working there...
When storage gets crowded, he says, it exacerbates theft problems. During move-in, students arriving early want quick access to their belongings in the back of storage spaces and put extra items in the hallways...