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...Weapons were found, but the men got away. Saudi authorities quickly released the names and photographs of 19 alleged terrorists. Two of the suspects--Abdulrahman Mansour Jabarah and Khalid al-Jehani--seem to have al-Qaeda links. Jabarah is the elder brother of Mohammed Mansour (Sammy) Jabarah, a Kuwaiti Canadian now in U.S. custody who allegedly took part in a foiled al-Qaeda plot to blow up embassies in Singapore. Al-Jehani, identified by some as al-Qaeda's chief of operations in the gulf region, appeared cradling a Kalashnikov in a famous al-Qaeda martyrdom video found...
...prime minister of France will have beef today-Canadian western beef. I had it yesterday and look how healthy I am this morning." Jean Chrétien, Canadian Prime Minister, after one cow in Canada was found to be infected with...
...much production to lower-paying suppliers, GM may have set a precedent with its new Cadillac plant in Lansing, Mich., which opened last year. Be more flexible about work rules, and let us outsource more, GM said, or we'll set up shop in Mexico or Canada (where the Canadian Auto Workers split from its American parent in 1985). The plant is now a model of Detroit lean and mean. Its vehicles rate second, to Lexus, in initial quality. Suppliers deliver components every four hours (vs. every two weeks at some GM plants), and management lets workers freeze the lines...
...Airways deal. Shares in Bombardier are stuck around $3, down from about $18. The good news for Bombardier Inc. is that it has a respected new chief executive in Tellier, 63, who arrived in January. A roll-up-your-sleeves manager, Tellier took over the moribund, government-owned Canadian National Railway Co. in 1992 and turned it into a lean and efficient publicly traded market leader. He did that by cutting costs (including 14,200 jobs) and eliminating real estate and telecom divisions to focus on rail. Tellier knows Bombardier, having served on its board for the past five years...
...mentally competent and committed wicked crimes as adults, it is nobody’s place to take their lives. Every other Western industrialized nation is committed to that principle; it is not the doctrine of extreme liberals. Retribution by death is part of a past civilization that our Canadian and European counterparts have wisely left behind with the second millennium (straggler Armenia abolished the death penalty as late as April...