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...Director Michael Hayden called the FATA an al-Qaeda "safe haven" that presents a "clear and present danger to Afghanistan, to Pakistan and to the West in general, and to the United States in particular." Admiral Michael Mullen, Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, says, "If I were going to pick the next attack to hit the United States, it would come out of FATA." Intelligence officials in the region, and abroad, say that al-Qaeda operatives, taking advantage of the limited reach of government, have been able to set up sophisticated communications systems, financial networks and training...
...that TNK-BP operates too much like a BP subsidiary, resisting expansion beyond Russia to avoid stepping on the British firm's toes. Instead, the Russians want an independent CEO, and a culling of BP staff seconded to the Russian venture. AAR, led by Mikhail Fridman, TNK-BP's chairman, has even threatened legal action after its calls for more influence came to nothing...
DIED From the moment she was born on a former revolutionary base, Shao Hua's future was enmeshed with that of the Chinese Communist Party. In 1960 she became the daughter-in-law of Chairman Mao Zedong, marrying his second son, Mao Anqing. During the 1950s, Zedong's older brother, Mao Anying, obtained for her a Soviet camera, which she used to document schools, factories and villages. She was later promoted to major general in the People's Liberation Army and became the president of the China Photographers Association...
...Soltz, VoteVets.org chairman, praising Clark for his "blunt and honest" comments...
...council responsible for non-academic matters, the idea was turned down by the Congregation, the parliament of Oxford dons. In the scramble to catch up with wealthier U.S. colleges, the dons' power could discourage potential benefactors. "A governing body dominated by academic members of a university," says Philip Harding, chairman of the British Universities Finance Directors Group, "will probably be less attractive to a major donor than one whose governors are from a mixed background...