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...contacts have been so innocent. The former radiologist is on trial for charges of allegedly aiding the Mafia. Investigators say the regional President tipped off an acquaintance that his conversations were being bugged by police in an ongoing probe into the network providing insider tips to Cosa Nostra's boss of bosses, Bernardo Provenzano. Cuffaro denies any wrongdoing or Mafia ties, and has refused calls by opponents to forego his run for a second five-year term. During an interview at his storefront Palermo headquarters - with some 25 aides and supporters crammed into his office to look on - Cuffaro brushed...
...worth remembering that Maliki is himself a compromise candidate - a relative unknown figure with negligible street credibility, he was picked because his party boss, former Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari, had become unacceptable to Sunni and Kurdish parties. Inside political circles, Maliki had been known as a strident Shi'ite hardliner. Since his nomination, he has struck a more conciliatory pose, talking up unity and inching away from the anti-Sunni positions he had previously defended. His reinvention has been aided by U.S. officials keen to present him as Iraq's best hope. Khalilzad has described him an a "patriot...
...suave to be indignant about public lying. But like error, lying violates ideals to which universities in particular are dedicated. Medicare’s chief actuary calculated in 2003, before Congress voted on the prescription-drug benefit, a 10-year cost for the program: $599.5 billion. His boss told him, “We have to keep this from getting out,” and added, “The consequences for insubordination are extraordinarily severe.” Congress voted for the law believing that it would cost $395 billion. Rather than decrying this impudence toward economic method, Harvard...
...knows a crucial part of his legacy will be how well his successor fares. But Blair, still only 53, will never have a better job. And "he has amazing self-belief," says a Downing Street official. At the same time, a Minister in Blair's camp retorts that his boss is anything but self-deluded: "If the poll numbers are this bad in six months, he'll do something different. If he encounters a blockage that convinces him he doesn't have the authority to do the job anymore...
...Pixar Animation: he directed its first three hits (Toy Story, A Bug's Life and Toy Story 2) and executive-produced its next three (Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo and The Incredibles). Early this year, when Disney bought Pixar--basically paying about $7 billion for Lasseter's brain--he became boss of the grand old animation studio as well as the most revered modern one. His job: get both groups to make great movies...