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...believes Washington may have wound up with useful information. Since the Tuesday-morning destination was a secret, inspectors were surprised to be greeted within 10 minutes of their arrival by none other than Saddam's personal secretary, Abed Hamid Mohmood, who, according to Iraqi officials, sticks close to his boss. These officials say that only Saddam could have granted the order to open up al-Sajoud...
...abruptness of last week's moves was startling--not least to the two men ousted--it wasn't entirely surprising. Bush's economic team has long been viewed as the weak link in a popular Administration, and both O'Neill and Lindsey were prone to gaffes that embarrassed the boss. "They lack the ability to conceive, the ability to execute and the ability to sell economic policy," said an Administration official. And that pretty much sums up both their job descriptions...
...leaking damaging criticism of O'Neill and Hubbard. At strategy sessions with Bush, O'Neill frequently interrupted Lindsey to disagree with him. "There was no creative tension," says a senior aide, "just tension." After the bloodletting last week, staff members for each man blamed the other for their boss's misfortune. For a White House that prides itself on unity and order, it was an exceptional day. "Emotions around here are pretty raw," said a senior White House official...
...overseas image. Chinese audiences share this ambivalence. Younger moviegoers have an almost universal description of why they dislike Zhang's fixation on the past and on the countryside: "The films are really just too far away from us," says Zhang's 25-year-old assistant, speaking of her boss's early work. "They have nothing to do with our lives." Of course they do, and far more than the Hollywood confections that are the biggest box-office hits in China. But Chinese audience members (like those in most of the world) come to the theater to be transported elsewhere...
...five weeks, carefully limiting his cell-phone conversations to 20 seconds to foil police scanning. The latest technology, however, requires only a few seconds to trace a call, and on Nov. 21 police tracked down Samudra and nabbed two of his bodyguards. They said their boss planned to board a bus about to leave on a ferry to Pekanbaru, on the island of Sumatra. Two policemen arrested Samudra. Indonesian police say he later confessed to being the chief planner of the Bali bombings and to a string of unsolved crimes. Samudra, according to police sources, said one of the bombs...