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...Times. But the statement "didn't say much of anything," Matalin says--not even that Cheney was the shooter. Matalin then spoke with a second aide and with Cheney's family and heard different versions of what had happened in the shooting. She decided no statement should be released amid the confusion. Matalin spoke with Cheney, and, she says, they agreed that "a fuller accounting, with an eyewitness," would be preferable...
Nevertheless, an orgy it wasn’t, as some standard of propriety held sway amid the bumping and grinding...
Brin, 32, has also been precocious all his life. Born into a Jewish family in Moscow, Brin fled Russia with his parents amid rising anti-Semitism in the late 1970s and settled in the U.S. Brin's father Michael teaches applied probability and statistics at the University of Maryland; his mother works at NASA. Brin from an early age was fascinated with numbers; his father gave him his first computer, a Commodore 64, when he turned 9. Brin's other love is gymnastics, and he studied flying trapeze at a circus school in San Francisco. He has lately taken...
...Asia's two most famous temple sites?Cambodia's Angkor Wat and Burma's Bagan?each have their partisans. Some say that Angkor's location amid dense foliage lends its ruins a heightened sense of mystery and romance. Others argue that the dry plain of Bagan provides a superior experience because there is no jungle to obstruct the view of its thousands of temples and pagodas. Given that operators at both places offer views from hot-air balloons, the debate can also be conducted in the air. The Angkor balloon is tethered 1 km away from the actual landmark, because...
...RESIGNED. ANDREW LINDBERG, 52, chief executive of Australian wheat exporter AWB; amid allegations of corruption involving the United Nations oil-for-food program governing trade with Saddam Hussein's Iraq; in Melbourne. U.N. officials claim that from 1996 to 2003, when AWB-formerly the state-controlled Australian Wheat Board-was the largest supplier of humanitarian goods to Iraq, the firm gave up to $222 million in kickbacks to Iraqi ministers in exchange for lucrative contracts. AWB has denied any wrongdoing...