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...rejected the winning entry "Cookie" in favor of "Socks") and showing a trailer for the documentary A Year with the Queen with scenes shown out of sequence to suggest (deceptively) that the monarch had stormed out of a photo session. That scandal claimed a number of scalps, including the boss of BBC1, Peter Fincham, who resigned on Oct. 5. Two weeks later, the BBC's director general Mark Thompson announced plans to kill off some 2,500 jobs, mostly in news and factual programming, and to sell the Corporation's iconic West London headquarters, Television Centre. Management is now locked...
...extra security to thwart any rescue attempt, a senior Iraqi official tells Time. After all, Hashem was no ordinary criminal. Saddam Hussein's last Defense Minister had been condemned to death by an Iraqi court for his role in the slaughter of thousands of Kurds. Like his former boss before him, Hashem was held in Camp Cropper, a U.S. military base on the outskirts of Baghdad, and would have to be flown to his execution by U.S. military helicopter. The Iraqi government planned to hang Hashem at 3 a.m. on the anniversary of 9/11. A speech had been written...
...public service once again a proud and lively career,” he said. “We need the right leadership.” Students in attendance reacted positively to Sorensen’s speech, noting that he had to hold back tears when speaking of his former boss. “How touched he still felt by the death of J.F.K. shows what kind of respect he had for him,” said Susana Bejar ‘08. Sorensen’s address also praised Kennedy’s resolve under pressure...
...extraordinary step was that the man he named to run the board, John Hamre, is a longtime Democratic wise man and former Pentagon deputy boss under Bill Clinton...
...this being China - plenty of thermoses of hot water. The media office also organized several of the sessions at which delegates discussed the Party's future plans. Two next-generation leaders who are widely touted to be elevated into the upper ranks of the party this week, Shanghai Party boss Xi Jinping and Liaoning Province head Li Keqiang, appeared at the public sessions to parrot the Party line, although both men slipped away to avoid questions on their possible elevation. Similarly, the press conferences produced more statistics than sparkle, with one senior party official reverting to type by reading...