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...victim both held to the view that there were no secrets in this marriage. But this time, at least some of the First Lady's confidants argue otherwise. No, they say, she didn't quite buy the internal White House cover story; that an employee named Monica had a crush on the President; that it had got out of hand; that he had tried to "counsel her," talk about her family problems, her job hopes; that she had eventually been banished; and that the rest was a fabrication by the President's enemies...
...much talked about but mind-bogglingly underused. Put simply: you have just two more conversion weeks till Christmas. Don't blow it. Mutual-fund companies estimate that only 5% of people eligible to convert their old IRA to the Roth version have done so. There may be a crush of late activity, and paperwork received the last week of December may not get processed before the year-end deadline...
...judge of Spain's National Court. Two years ago, he began looking into human-rights abuses against Spanish citizens in Argentina, which were linked to Chile by a scheme called Operation Condor. With this plan, Pinochet and other South American junta leaders pooled their deadliest secret-police units to crush resistance to their rule. Garzon concluded that Pinochet is not covered by the traditional legal tenet, called sovereign immunity, one aspect of which protects national leaders from prosecution. Garzon argues that it does not apply because murder and torture are not legitimate parts of a head of government...
According to Carolann Brockett, an administrator at OCS, despite the crush of eager students, the day went smoothly...
...very startled to be asked that about a woman I used to have a crush on," Kingsbury said...