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...Last week, however, the p.r. team went on the attack. It came on the eve of ex-chairman Maurice (Hank) Greenberg's congressional testimony critical of the firm's current leaders and the bailout strategy. Reporters were given a document outlining Greenberg's role in creating a ruinous AIG unit and his 2005 ouster. A press release questioned why he should have "any credibility." Ashooh said the document was prepared internally, not by p.r. firms, and was intended to correct "misinformation" spread by Greenberg...
...named head coach of the program last week. The Rams have made two of the past three NCAA tournaments, scoring a first-round upset over Duke in 2007.“We are going to wreak havoc on our opponents’ psyche and their plan of attack,” Smart promised in the press conference announcing his appointment.Wade and Smart coached together for Clemson during the 2006-07 basketball season, where Wade served as the director of men’s basketball operations and Smith was an assistant coach and the recruiting coordinator for the Tigers under head...
...legislation is intended to make that line clearer. Presented in a committee of the lower house of parliament by the Catalan party Convergence and Union on March 10, the bill is designed, according to spokesman Josep Sánchez y Llibre, "to protect citizens against those acts that attack their dignity or invade their privacy." It won the committee's unanimous support, a critical step toward becoming...
...possibility of one side or the other achieving a "breakout capacity," meaning that it could quickly and quietly beef up its arsenal until it became capable of launching a devastating "first strike." First-strike capability is dangerous because it is not "crisis stable": it could encourage a preemptive nuclear attack during a tense standoff. (See pictures of a world-class nuclear bunker in West Virginia...
...Belgium and kidnapped five aid workers, shortly after prosecutors at the International Criminal Court in The Hague had handed down a war-crimes indictment to Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir - its first for a sitting head of state. Enraged at what he claimed was a Western attack on his presidency, Bashir expelled 13 aid organizations operating in conflict-ravaged Darfur in Western Sudan, perhaps the world's most complex humanitarian disaster at the moment, with millions dead or driven from their homes. MSF Belgium was permitted to stay in the area, but their staff, more isolated after the explusions...