Plane Detour Ordered to Prolong Nap?
PARIS (Reuters) - Determined to get a decent night’s sleep, French President Jacques Chirac ordered his Airbus pilot to perform a 1,250-mile time-killing tour of France before heading to Russia to see Vladimir Putin (news - web sites) last week.
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Never scared to take a crack at Chirac, [...]
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‘You Are Nobody!’ Is Slander
ROME (Reuters) - A driver who told a parking attendant “You are nobody!” has felt the weight of Italy’s legal system, which ruled the seemingly innocuous words constituted slander — and fined him heavily.
The tiff over a parking space led to Giulio C. being fined 300 euros [...]