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...back on the road Monday with a template that he used repeatedly in the elections of '02 and '04-conduct a brief public policy event and then make a political appearance, meaning that the cost of the visit is shared between the government and the campaign. In conjunction with remarks on border security and immigration reform, Bush will speak at a $1,000-a-plate dinner for Sen. John Kyl of Arizona, at the Biltmore Resort and Spa in Phoenix. After an overnight stay in Phoenix, he will visit the U.S. Border Patrol Headquarters in El Paso, Tex., then...
...1970s, al-Jaafari, a physician, was a rising star in the Islamic Dawa Party and fled with the leadership to Iran and then Britain in the 1980s when Saddam outlawed the movement. He speaks English well but not with the facility of a native speaker and prefers to conduct interviews through an interpreter. Since becoming Prime Minister, al-Jaafari has lived within the Green Zone in what had been one of Saddam's favorite palaces. But al-Jaafari knew not to make himself too comfortable. Boxes are backed up in the corner of his office, never unpacked. Framed pictures lean...
...they certainly refined it. Unlike most of its competitors, Google used PageRank technology to compile results according to importance and would not allow advertisement money to contaminate them. Repeatedly, Google chose quality of the website over potential profit; hence the mantra in the company’s Code of Conduct: “Don’t be evil.”While other websites bombard users with flashy advertisements, Google insists on Spartan simplicity. Its homepage is uncluttered, and the stress-free white background—coupled with the logo’s primary colors—emits...
Summers’ compensation became an issue this summer when Conrad K. Harper resigned from the seven-member Corporation, arguing against a 3-percent raise for the University president. “In my judgment, your 2004-05 conduct, implicating, as it does, profound issues of temperament and judgment, merits no increase whatsoever,” Harper wrote in a letter to Summers...
...Sydney and Melbourne were told that hours of voice recordings and other evidence would show the Melbourne group were members of a terrorist organization led by Benbrika and had been involved in discussions about bomb-making, military training and jihad. One man had allegedly expressed a desire to conduct a suicide "martyr mission" in Australia but had been denied permission; others were suspected to have trained with terrorist groups overseas. Crown Prosecutor Richard Maidment said the surveillance had detected "a constant theme ... directed at violent jihad which has no respect for human life and embracing the notion that...