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...Gaza operations before he was chosen in 1995 to rebuild the organization's VIPprotection unit following the lapses that enabled an assassin to kill Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin that year. Dichter was promoted to the top job in 2000 by then Prime Minister Ehud Barak. When the intifadeh broke out five months into Dichter's five-year term, he initiated a string of high-profile counteroperations that impressed Sharon even before he became Prime Minister. To kill Hamas operatives, Dichter had his agents hide explosives in telephone booths and car-seat headrests; he pushed them to cut planning time...
...sticking point: who would run the joint business. "He said, 'I'm your man,'" says Ellison. "Conway didn't see a single antitrust problem then." (Conway does not dispute this account of the meeting but points out that discussions were over in a matter of hours.) After negotiations broke down, Ellison kept the idea of some kind of PeopleSoft deal in the back of his mind...
...Hague-based U.N. war-crimes tribunal. He was one of the first people indicted, and one of the last major war-crimes suspects still at large. The arrest triggered violent protests by hard-line nationalists who tried to prevent the police from taking him into custody. When police broke into his apartment, they were attacked by a mob of several hundred protesters, who were than dispersed by tear gas and shock grenades. "Sljivancanin himself offered no resistance," said Serbian Police Minister Dusan Mihajlovic. - By Dejan Anastasijevic/Belgrade Judging the Future U.K. As part of a Cabinet reshuffle, Prime Minister Tony Blair...
...deceived shareholders who otherwise would be worried that insider-trading allegations would damage a company built entirely around the image of its namesake. (The stock indeed rose briefly after Stewart's early statements defending herself but last week was down to $10.24 a share, from $19.01 before the scandal broke...
Sulzberger, who often tells interviewers about the importance of making mistakes in life, stood by his editor when the crisis broke, saying he would not accept Raines' resignation. But Sulzberger also took an aggressive role in trying to gauge newsroom discontent, including holding a meeting of hundreds of employees in a Times Square movie theater--which made it clear that Raines and Boyd needed to act very fast to fix morale. Among other things, the paper appointed a committee to make management suggestions--and began looking for other Blairs. Then came a second scandal: Rick Bragg, a Pulitzer prizewinning feature...