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...diplomat involved in Middle East issues. During last summer's negotiations over a new constitution, Khalilzad took cell-phone calls from Rice in the presence of Iraqi leaders, giving her updates and assessments, according to a U.S. consultant who observed him. It showed Iraqis he had a direct line to Washington and enhanced trust that he had no hidden agenda. Hamoodi says agreement on the constitution "would have been impossible without...
...defense tried to isolate Fastow, saying he didn't have direct, documented evidence of Skilling and Lay doing anything wrong, and stressing the millions Fastow earned in numerous side deals. Petrocelli asked how much money Fastow made in each deal, then asked how much Skilling had put in the bank. The answer to the second question was always, "Zero...
...only crack in Fastow?s composure came during direct examination, when he nearly cried when he talked about misleading his wife and causing her year-long incarceration. But he held the tears in check when Petrocelli pressed him on the same subject, suggesting he had betrayed and sacrificed his wife to save himself life imprisonment. " You love your children, don?t you?" Petrocelli said. "You must be consumed with insatiable greed." Fastow kept repeating that he and his wife made decisions that were best for their family...
...evidence that over the last decade caloric intake from sugar-sweetened beverages have gone up,” said Eric B. Rimm, associate professor of epidemiology and nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health. “I think that you can’t draw a direct link between the increased rates of obesity in this country and sugar-sweetened beverages, but there is an association.” The new research has led some public health experts to renew calls for a “fat-tax” that would help limit soda intake, much...
...hopes that its direct association with the recognizable Pell program will effectively expand its applicant pool, Hicks said...