*Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
French-Senegalese author Marie NDiaye, who last week won France's top literary prize, the Goncourt,says she stands by her comments about President Nicolas Sarkozy creating the "atmosphere of a police state" in France.AFP - French Culture Minister Frederic Mitterrand backed a book prize winner's right to free speech Thursday after she was attacked for calling President Nicolas Sarkozy's vision of France "hideous."
AFP - French Culture Minister Frederic Mitterrand backed a book prize winner's right to free speech Thursday after she was attacked for calling President Nicolas Sarkozy's vision of France "hideous."
Patrizia D'Addario, the Italian escort who claims to have spent a night with Silvio Berlusconi, is to star in a film about her alleged exploits. Miss D'Addario, 42, has been a household name in Italy ever since she claimed to have slept with the Italian prime minister at his residence in Rome, Palazzo Grazioli, last November.She has just completed an autobiography, which is expected to contain further claims about her night with the 73-year-old billionaire and is scheduled to be published before Christmas.
Miss D'Addario, 42, has been a household name in Italy ever since she claimed to have slept with the Italian prime minister at his residence in Rome, Palazzo Grazioli, last November.
She has just completed an autobiography, which is expected to contain further claims about her night with the 73-year-old billionaire and is scheduled to be published before Christmas.
Tonight, i'd rather be in Taka Tuka Land. "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin
Am also dubious about the hat he's wearing that dosnt get blown out the far side by the second train as it passes. Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
The trains were filmed in Germany near Hamburg (two ICE trains of different types and a train used only on Hamburg's S-Bahn). Somehow the third train's speed seems off. A track worker working alone on a busy mainline is off, too (they work in teams, with one guy doing watchout & warning). I'm sure it is a fake -- nd so say some on the original German YouTube posting (though I can't make out the details in shadow and shoe movements that caught their eye). *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
A man on the run who sent a newspaper a photo of himself standing in front of a police van has been jailed.Matthew Maynard, 24, had been living at home with his parents all along, Swansea Crown Court was told. Maynard, of Penlan, Swansea, was jailed for 16 weeks for breaching conditions of a 12-month suspended sentence imposed for handling stolen goods. He sent the photo to the South Wales Evening Post after it carried a police "mugshot" of him on its front page. The photo had appeared, along with seven others, as part of a police campaign. Home visitBut Maynard phoned the newspaper, claiming to be unhappy with the photo used, and sent them one of his own instead.
A man on the run who sent a newspaper a photo of himself standing in front of a police van has been jailed.
Matthew Maynard, 24, had been living at home with his parents all along, Swansea Crown Court was told.
Maynard, of Penlan, Swansea, was jailed for 16 weeks for breaching conditions of a 12-month suspended sentence imposed for handling stolen goods.
He sent the photo to the South Wales Evening Post after it carried a police "mugshot" of him on its front page.
The photo had appeared, along with seven others, as part of a police campaign.
Home visit
But Maynard phoned the newspaper, claiming to be unhappy with the photo used, and sent them one of his own instead.
