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...meetings at various locales in Damascus, including Shawkat's office. And the witness told investigators that two weeks before the assassination, Shawkat held a final planning session at his own residence and forced a Lebanese fundamentalist being used as a decoy to videotape the claim of responsibility that was broadcast on al-Jazeera the day of Hariri's death...
...part of its contract with the Ivies, YES has agreed to show five league games, including at least one contest involving each team. And what better way is there to knock the worst two teams off the list than to broadcast the game involving both...
Until just before the New Year, Gingrich thought he could tiptoe past the political graveyard. On Dec. 21 the House ethics committee released a 22-page report based on evidence assembled by James Cole, its special investigator. Most of its findings concerned whether the nationally broadcast college course that Gingrich taught, which was financed by tax-deductible contributions to nonprofit organizations, had partisan purposes. The subcommittee concluded that it had. Most damningly, the panel determined that Gingrich had misled committee investigators by signing false statements declaring that his political organization, GOPAC, had no involvement with the course...
...seven current and former Food Lion employees who gave firsthand accounts of the chain's unsanitary handling practices. Moreover, PrimeTime anchor Diane Sawyer noted that producers had collected similar horror stories from more than 60 other on-the-record sources. Food Lion filed suit against ABC even before the broadcast and now claims that the broadcast cost the company between $1.7 billion and $2.5 billion in lost sales and stock-price dips. But it has not filed libel charges against ABC. Rather, it has sued ABC and four PrimeTime producers for, among other things, fraud, trespass and deceptive trade practices...
Suddenly last week all those precedents were reversed. After 11 meetings between U.S. and North Korean officials in New York, Pyongyang made a rare apology. In a Korean-language broadcast to the world, the North expressed its "deep regret" for the submarine incident, promised to keep such things from happening again and sweetly offered to "work with others for durable peace and stability on the Korean peninsula." The North Koreans also dropped their demand for the sub in return for the remains of their dead. A day later the North agreed to sit down with the U.S. and South Korea...