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...explosion, destroying forensic evidence that may point to the cause of the deadly accident. So far, the CMPO had kept mum. However, Novye Izvestiya, a well-informed Moscow- based daily, reported Thursday that the CMPO did indeed rule out cutting off the nose section. The CMPO would not confirm nor deny the allegation to the paper. Ironically, should the allegation prove true, it would help those avoiding the truth rather than people who, like Chernov, want to find out what really happened to the Kursk, because the CMPO's ban could become an excuse to discontinue the salvage operation...
...Dongguan, another Guangdong industrial hub, there are more than 50,000 Taiwanese, and things there are pretty hairy. Mainland police confirm that eight of the 14 murders of Taiwanese on the mainland last year took place in Dongguan. But Hayes Lou, secretary-general of the Dongguan Taiwanese Businessmen's Association, estimates that 30 to 40 Taiwanese die in the city each year, including accident victims. A year ago, two Taiwanese brothers managing a plastics plant were murdered by a pair of migrant workers they had fired. The brothers were bludgeoned with metal pipes. "I went there and saw," Lou says...
However, Baker refused to either confirm or deny that a University investigation is currently ongoing concerning Ruggiero or her researchg. She said that all proceedings of the Committee on Professional Conduct are confidential, just like those of the Administrative Board which disciplines students...
...Some 1,200 companies will showing their balance sheets to Wall Street this week, a data dump of crunched numbers, profit forecasts and other financial mumbo-jumbo that will only confirm what everybody's supposed to know by now: Business, in the second quarter, was lousy...
...Jewish) to his Newark childhood. (Tarnapol at least grew up in the Bronx.) What is more, Zuckerman is facing the same dilemma that Roth did, with considerable attendant publicity early in his career; he has been accused of writing a story involving misbehaving Jews that, other Jews claim, will confirm anti-Semitic prejudices in Gentile readers...