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...Iraq last week by a previously unknown group called the Mujahedin Brigade. The kidnappers' warning, which came with a video showing the blindfolded hostages?two humanitarian workers (Nahoko Takato and Imai) and a photographer (Soichiro Koriyama)?surrounded by armed men, was chillingly clear: "Three of your sons have fallen into our hands. We offer you two choices: Either pull out your forces or we will burn them alive...
...They've fallen out before. Three times in the past 15 years, KMT leaders have split to form their own parties. One renegade, mainland-born James Soong, now leads the PFP. A fiery speaker, Soong carried with him many of the KMT's mainland-born legislators. Since making an uneasy peace with Lien and running as his vice-presidential candidate, Soong has turned the postelection fracas to his advantage. KMT insiders insist he pressured Lien to dispute the election results on the night of March 20, and Soong's followers dominated the stage in massive demonstrations that followed. Protests that...
...BusinessWeek suggested that HBS—which has fallen in the student satisfaction segment of the survey in recent years—is driven by less-principled motives...
...conservative Republican wanted to do was create the biggest new federal bureaucracy in 50 years. But pressure grew to the point that even Republicans were abandoning him. When Bush finally did reverse course--on the day FBI agent Coleen Rowley went public about the 9/11 clues that had fallen through the cracks--he went on the air in a national address and insisted that a new Homeland Security Department was needed. And in the months that followed, he even helped Republicans ride the issue to victory in the 2002 midterm elections...
...last June, the number of MPP graduates entering the private sector had fallen to 20 percent...