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...violence and fear and instability in the world’s most dangerous region.” Then, on Sunday, Chris Matthews showed on his program footage of President Bush at his ranch on Aug. 7, 2001. Leaning on the steering wheel of his golf cart, the president mused on national security priorities, talking about what a threat Saddam Hussein was but making no mention of bin Laden. The clip was part of a news story about the release of Bush’s security briefing from Aug. 6, entitled “Bin Laden determined to Attack Inside...
...half a dozen men then affixed two of the bodies to the back of a dark red Opel sedan and dragged them about two miles to a bridge over the Euphrates River, where they were suspended from a girder for all to see. A man climbed onto a donkey cart positioned under the bodies and beat one of the swaying corpses with a pipe. The surrounding crowd chanted, "We are Fallujah. We are brave. Who asked you to mess with us?" Six hours later, members of the Iraqi security force that the U.S. created to maintain order finally showed...
There's a joke in the accounting trade that the difference between a wobbly grocery cart and a corporate auditor is that the cart has a mind of its own. Very funny, unless you had invested in MCI (formerly WorldCom), which recently announced that the pretax income it reported for 2000 and 2001 was just a tad off--$74.4 billion less than it had said, after writedowns and adjustments. Outside auditors have signed off on bogus earnings reports and balance sheets at companies from Rite Aid to Xerox. In some cases, auditors dealt with corporate brass intent on concealing thievery...
...crime, how could they be so foolish as to put themselves in this mess? "With some young players today, ego is the biggest problem," says Mark Carroll, a former Australian league player who coaches at Manly. "I pull them aside sometimes and say, 'Hey, you're a footballer. You cart around a lump of pigskin. You don't save lives.'" Sexual shenanigans by sportsmen are not, of course, confined to rugby league...
...wanted to give the student a chance to fight for her microwave before we cart it off sometime this week,” Hegarty said...