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...Basam Ridha, adviser to the Prime Minister for the Saddam trial, puts the number closer to 200. About 80 more have vanished while traveling on the road between Dujail and Baghdad. "Have you ever heard of the Bermuda Triangle?" asks Mahmoud Hussein al-Hesreji, chief of the Dujail city council. "It's just like that...
Executive Director of the Council of Ivy Group Presidents, the league’s governing board, Jeffrey H. Orleans, said that the Ivy League as a whole would not propose any categorical elimination of likely letters, and that change would have to be done on a school-by-school basis...
...can’t the public that ultimately funded the Bassin and Douglass research be provided with a cogent explanation of what convinced the investigators that Douglass behaved properly? How did the investigators explain Douglass’ written statement to a National Research Council committee saying that his work revealed “an Odds Ratio of 1.2 to 1.4 between fluoride and osteosarcoma that was not significantly different from 1” when his own student, in her PhD dissertation approved by Douglass, had found a “robust” five to seven fold increase in osteosarcoma...
...calls himself a "harmonizer" - quiet but effective. Now Ban, a Harvard-educated diplomat who has served his country for 36 years in New Delhi, Washington and at the United Nations, may face the ultimate diplomatic challenge. After winning Thursday's most recent straw U.N. Security Council straw poll, Ban has solidified his status as the front-runner in the race to replace Secretary-General Kofi Annan, who is required to step down after completing his second term in the job at the end of 2006. If Ban wins - a big if, given the unpredictable politics of Secretary-General races...
...fluent minister seems incapable of making enemies. Though relations between South Korea and Japan are worse today than they have been in decades, Japanese diplomats generally like the 62-year-old Ban himself. That matters, as Japan is currently holds one of the 10 rotating seats on the Security Council. Ban has also received enthusiastic support from Australia. But the deciding vote will likely be cast by China, one of the Council's five veto-wielding permanent members. If the South Korean is viewed by Beijing as too close to Washington, he may find China cool to his candidacy. Ironically...