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...Bush struggled to explain away the past, Cheney was being investigated by the SEC and sued by Halliburton shareholders and the conservative activist group Judicial Watch. The allegation: that Halliburton, while Cheney was CEO, greased the books to boost the firm's flagging fortunes. Its decline was due in part to Cheney's signature strategic move-Halliburton's merger with Dresser Industries in 1998, when Dresser was about to be buried under asbestos-contamination lawsuits. Halliburton remains burdened with the liability of more than 200,000 suits and as of last year was on the hook for $125 million...
...well-known neighborhood activist John Pitkin quickly withdrew, saying he needed Mid-Cambridge to support the agreement before he could sign—and saying that the benefits Harvard offered were not enough...
...delivered saucy advice on topics ranging from household problems, such as how to hang a toilet-paper roll, to sexual inquiries, such as what to do about cross-dressing husbands. It reached an estimated 90 million people daily through 1,200 publications. DIED. LIONEL BERNSTEIN, 82, a white antiapartheid activist; in Oxford, England. Bernstein stood trial for sabotage and attempted overthrow of the South African government alongside Nelson Mandela in 1963. Following his acquittal, Bernstein moved to England where he practiced as an architect. DIED. PEDRO ALCAZAR, 26, a Panamanian boxer, of a brain injury 36 hours after he lost...
When you marry a man of immense wealth and fame, certain aspects of the wedding take care of themselves. HEATHER MILLS, an anti-land-mines activist who married SIR PAUL McCARTNEY last week, didn't have to worry about what type of flower to choose for her bouquet: she carried McCartney roses, a variety named after her husband in 1993. She walked down the aisle to the tune of Heather, which McCartney wrote for her on his latest album. And she was surrounded by McCartney's famous friends, including Ringo Starr and Eric Clapton, in an Irish castle the couple...
...high-commitment Catholics" supported "more democratic decision making" at the parish level, and 56% wished for more at the diocesan level. But after years of simply ignoring birth control and abortion edicts out of Rome, many simply did not care enough about church governance to join liberal activist groups. Admits D'Antonio, whose leanings are liberal: "Things were going slowly." That is, until the Boston Globe's reporting connected the dots between abuse and hierarchical arrogance. Suddenly, says D'Antonio, "you have people who were ready to wait another 30 years for any kind of reform saying 'By gosh, this...