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Jules Kroll, a New York City investigator who previously tracked down hidden assets of Marcos and former Haitian President Jean-Claude ("Baby Doc") Duvalier, disclosed the audacious magnitude of Saddam's scheme last week on CBS's 60 Minutes. Kroll began chasing the hidden billions after Kuwait's government-in-exile hired him in the wake of last year's invasion. His mission: to locate secret Iraqi funds that Kuwait could use to rebuild itself once the crisis ended. "The phenomenon of using front companies is common," Kroll says of his findings. "What distinguishes this one is its level...
...Doc Edgerton: Stopping Time at the MIT Museum indefinitely...
...Lafontant, a gynecologist who was the muscle behind the regime of exiled dictator Jean-Claude ("Baby Doc") Duvalier from 1981 to 1985, turned out to be a general without an army. In an unprecedented gesture of support for democracy, the Haitian military, led by army Chief of Staff General Herard Abraham, declared its allegiance to the government. Less than 12 hours after the coup began, soldiers stormed the palace, freed Pascal-Trouillot and dragged off Lafontant and 15 of his henchmen in handcuffs...
...theological populism, which is based on restoring the dignity and material well-being of the country's 6.2 million people. Even before the results were official, Port-au- Prince erupted in spontaneous street demonstrations bigger than the ones that followed the departure of the hated Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier in 1986. As police in riot gear nervously looked on, thousands of jubilant Haitians waved tree branches as a sign of joy and shouted, "Aristide is President!" Aristide's victory, said Haitian economist Gerard Pierre Charles, marks a breakthrough in "the people's historic struggle for democracy against authoritarianism...
These two setbacks for the much-touted "carrotdrug" prompted the editorial board of the Journalof the National Cancer Institute to wonder intheir June issue: "Beta Carotene Didn't PreventCancer: What's Up, Doc...