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They share a birth date - sept. 8. both are married to women who excelled as models. And as the sons of Australia's two greatest media moguls, both know what it's like to have money - and to blow large sums of it. And yet ... "I couldn't imagine two more different people," says a Sydney lawyer who's worked closely with Lachlan Murdoch and James Packer over the years. "James has the softness of his mother, but he's extraordinarily numerate and has a bonhomie that he got from his old man. Lachlan is measured, reflective, highly intelligent. There...
...time is different. From Paris to Karachi, Canada to Turkey, interest in this U.S. election season began months ago. Libraries of new books on American politics and political figures have been flying off the shelves in Japan and Italy. Friends of mine (not all of them political junkies) from Australia, India, Ireland, Kenya, South Africa and Britain have all sent me e-mails in recent weeks about the primaries and how exciting they are. My father has been interested in American politics since 1960 and says he has never seen this level of interest so early in the race. "There...
...Saadi's were able to launch their legal action after being granted a medical visa to live in Australia. They moved to Brisbane, by coincidence the home town of many of the soldiers from the unit involved in the shooting...
...asked that only his first name be used for security reasons, also disputed parts of the al-Saadi's account. He believes the Australian government handled the matter poorly at the time and failed to keep soldiers informed about the case and the al-Saadi family's move to Australia. "It was always my worst fear. I knew this thing was never going to go away," says the private, who, a month earlier, had been in a vehicle that was attacked by a suicide bomber in a car rigged with explosives...
...driving the wrong way up the road and, despite warnings, got out of the vehicle and was killed. "We don't know what happened to the wife of that man who was in the car," Ben says. Another member of his unit adds: "She certainly wasn't brought to Australia...