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...conceivable," says a former intelligence analyst, "that he could have provided a stabilizing role in the south." Many questions remain unanswered about the conversations that took place among DEA, FBI and DIA officials who dealt with him. Two sources have hinted at tensions among the agencies but decline to explain when and how these were resolved. As a former senior DEA official put it, "It was a very, very sensitive case...
...police deny they are the source of the rumors and theories swirling through London, and even hardened conspiracy theorists--never in short supply in London's clubland--find it hard to explain what the boys in blue would stand to gain from such indiscretions. Still, each week, the stories pop up--and are then denied. One of the Prime Minister's advisers is said to have an explosive personal diary of events (he denies it); Downing Street is said to have a second, secret e-mail system ("stuff and nonsense," says an aide). But the idea that there...
...Pentagon took the false-impression route: he is so sorry that some people might have inexplicably got the impression that he meant what he obviously did mean when he said what he said. The Grey's Anatomy actor, Isaiah Washington, chose the therapeutic option. He can neither "defend nor explain" what he said, and "there are issues I obviously need to examine within my own soul," and on and on. "Can I stop now?" you can almost hear him pleading to his bosses at ABC. "No!" they reply with a crack of the whip. "More groveling! Get sorrier...
...turns out serious political gaffes aren't just for bumbling American presidential candidates. On Jan. 27 Japan's Health Minister Hakuo Yanagisawa gave a speech on the country's shrinking population in which he referred to Japanese women of childbearing age as "baby-making machines." He went onto explain that arresting population decline was difficult "because the number of baby-making machines and devices is fixed [in the population]; all we can do is ask them to do their best per head." The 71-year-old Yanagisawa did add, however, "that it may not be so appropriate to call them...
...notion of immortality certainly beat Botox. But Ikhwan was using his jewel vs. flower analogy to explain why it was preferable for female students at his Islamic boarding school to wear the chador, a flowing black dress that covers everything but the eyes. Indonesian women, though living in the world's largest Muslim-majority nation, have traditionally worn somewhat sexier garb: a loose, lacy veil, a cleavage-hugging blouse and a tight sarong. But over the past few years, as Southeast Asia's moderate forms of Islam have struggled to hold sway against the challenge of a more conservative, Middle...