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Beds made of hay are latest hotel craze

(CNN) — Holiday-makers around the world are facing up to the fact that, in times of recession, large travel expenses are difficult to justify. German huehotel 'Zum Alten Marstall' is at the foot of an 11th century castle and has adopted a medieval theme

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Beds made of hay are latest hotel craze

Blackwater in court for War Crimes hearing

Lawyers for Blackwater and its owner Erik Prince are in federal court in the Eastern District of Virginia today where they are arguing that the five lawsuits against them should be thrown out. The judge in the case, TS Ellis III, is a Reagan appointee with an interesting recent history. He presided over the plea agreement of John Walker Lindh, the so-called “American Taliban;” he sentenced Lawrence Franklin to 12 years in the AIPAC/Israel espionage scandal and he also tossed out a case brought by German citizen Khalid El-Masri against private companies allegedly involved with the CIA’s extraordinary rendition program

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Blackwater in court for War Crimes hearing