The Island in the Wind: “Jørgen Tranberg is a farmer who lives on the Danish island of Samsø. He is a beefy man with a mop of brown hair and an unpredictable sense of humor. When I arrived at his house, one gray morning this spring, he was sitting in his kitchen, smoking a cigarette…”
(Via The New Yorker.)
Marina Petrella, mourir plutôt qu’être extradée: “Menacée d’être renvoyée en Italie, Marina Petrella, une ancienne dirigeante des Brigades rouges réfugiée en France depuis une quinzaine d’années, se laisse mourir àl’hôpital psychiatrique de la maison d’arrêt de Fleury-Mérogis.
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(Via Le Monde.fr : A la une.)
Jean-Marie Le Pen qualifie de nouveau de “détail” les chambres àgaz nazies: Dans une interview au magazine régional ‘Bretons’, le président du Front national réitère sa qualification de ‘détail’ concernant les chambres àgaz nazies.
(Via Le Monde.fr : A la une.)
Ã…rets landmine-skønhed er fundet: “Kvinder, der har mistet et ben ved at træde pÃ¥ en landmine i Angola, har konkurreret om at blive Miss Landmine 2008. Nu er skønheden fundet.”
McCain Stumbles on H.I.V. Prevention – The Caucus – Politics – New York Times Blog: ”
SOMEWHERE in NORTHERN IOWA  The unthinkable has happened. Senator John McCain met a question, while sitting with reporters on his bus as it rumbled through Iowa today, that he couldn’t – or perhaps wouldn’t – answer.
Did he support the distribution of taxpayer-subsidized condoms in Africa to fight the transmission of H.I.V.?
What followed was a long series of awkward pauses, glances up to the ceiling and the image of one of Mr. McCain’s aides, standing off to the back, urgently motioning his press secretary to come to Mr. McCain’s side.”
(Via The New York Times.)
Danish Muslim Teen Murder Not Racist – IslamOnline.net – News: ”
Thu. Mar. 27, 2008
Danish Muslim Teen Murder Not Racist
By Ayman Qenawy, Hadi Yahmid
Copenhagen Police said Uzun’s murder had no racist or religious motives.
CAIRO  Danish police have concluded after a week’s investigation that the murder of a Muslim teen last week was not racially-motivated, the Foreign Ministry said in an e-mail to IslamOnline.net on Thursday, March 27.
Ove Dahl, Head of Homicide Department, Copenhagen Police, told the Danish Ra”
(Via IslamOnline.net.)
Danish Islamophobia Kills Muslim Teen: “Danish Muslims link the racist murder of a Muslim teen last week to an increasing Islamophobic atmosphere fanned by the reprinting of a cartoon satirical of prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him)..”
(Via IslamOnline.net > News.)
Mar 13, 2:55 AM EDT
Sheriff: Woman Sat on Toilet for 2 Years
By ROXANA HEGEMAN
Associated Press Writer
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Authorities are considering charges in the bizarre case of a woman who stayed in her boyfriend’s bathroom for two years, spending most of her time on the toilet – so that her body was stuck to the seat by the time the man finally called police.
It appeared the 35-year-old Ness City woman’s skin had grown around the seat, said Ness County Sheriff Bryan Whipple. The woman initially refused emergency medical services but was finally convinced by responders and her boyfriend that she needed to be checked out at a hospital.
‘We pried the toilet seat off with a pry bar and the seat went with her to the hospital.”
(Via AP.)
Rupture linguistique entre M. Sarkozy et Mme Pécresse: ”
vendredi 7 mars 2008
Rupture linguistique entre M. Sarkozy et Mme Pécresse
Dans un discours prononcé àCaen le 9 mars 2007, le candidat Nicolas Sarkozy déclarait : « Je veillerai àce que dans les entreprises installées sur le territoire français, la langue de travail soit le français, dès lors qu’il n’y a aucune nécessité économique ou commerciale qui oblige às’exprimer dans une autre langue. »”
(Via Le monde diplomatique.)
Feb 29, 10:56 PM EST
Police: Man Gets Shot to Avoid Work
PASCO, Wash. (AP) — What happened to faking a cough? Sheriff’s detectives in Franklin County said a man had his friend shoot him in the shoulder so he wouldn’t have to go to work.
When he first spoke with deputies, Daniel Kuch, of Pasco, told them he’d been the victim of a drive-by shooting while he was out jogging Thursday. But detectives told KONA radio that Kuch later acknowledged that he asked his friend to shoot him so he could get some time off work and avoid an upcoming drug test.”
(Via AP.)
