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...international community to pull together and get rid of Saddam for the Iraqi people. I have long argued for the "right to intervene." But you have to succeed. To do that, you need the international community standing with you. Saddam had been a major assassin in his country for 35 years. What difference would a few weeks have made? They should have done as we did in Kosovo, setting up a contact group and relying on international cooperation and peacekeepers...
Margaret Atwood was ready to take us on a journey to the future. But technology let her down--for the moment. Atwood, Canadian author of the Booker prizewinning The Blind Assassin, came up with the idea for a telerobotic writing device that permits an author to remotely inscribe books. The first public test of the LongPen, which can transmit a pen stroke written on an electronic tablet to a robotic pen-wielding arm, took place last week. Atwood, at a book fair in London, prepared to sign books across the Atlantic: in New York City and Guelph...
...threat of such a persuasive, publicly subversive figure, according to the non-binding Italian report, that put Wojtyla in the Soviets' firing line. A hired Turkish assassin, Mehmet Ali Agca, was convicted of shooting the Pontiff in St. Peter's Square on May 13, 1981. (After briefly being released earlier this year, Agca is back in an Istanbul prison serving time for an earlier killing of a Turkish journalist). Italian prosecutors long held that the Bulgarian secret service was working for Soviet military intelligence, but an Italian court held that the evidence was insufficient to convict the Bulgarians...
Right about now we bet DANIEL CRAIG wishes he were still known simply as the coke dealer from Layer Cake or the hothead assassin from Munich. Instead, Craig, who picks up the tuxedo-modeling gig in November's James Bond movie, Casino Royale, is under siege from skeptical 007 fans. On a new website, Craignotbond.com angry fans ask why "a short, blond actor with the rough face of a professional boxer and a penchant for playing villains, killers, cranks, cads and gigolos" ever got the iconic part. Pining for a little Pierce Brosnan--style suavity, the fans say they plan...
...they've earned added respect by successfully thwarting a score or more of major plots. Lately, however, some of the French force's luster has tarnished as allegations of torturing and framing suspects have arisen. Last week, an appeals court acquitted two Corsican nationalists of contracting the 1998 assassination of Claude Erignac, former prefect of Corsica and the state's highest representative on the island. Though upholding their conviction for involvement in 1994 bombings on the French mainland, the court cleared Jean Castela and Vincent Andriuzzi of participating in the conspiracy to murder Erignac. The trial laid bare many gaps...