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...could this happen? In 1976 President Ford signed an Executive Order banning political assassination by any employee of the U.S. government. President Reagan, to his credit, even tightened the ban, dropping the word political and adding that nobody "acting on behalf of" the U.S.--such as contract killers--could assassinate someone. The ban was issued, it will be recalled, because the CIA had been trying to bump off a lot of world leaders, from Patrice Lumumba in the Congo to Castro in Cuba, where the agency hired the Mafia to try to put botulinum toxin in Castro's soup...
...Ford Foundation Professor of Science and International Affairs Ashton B. Carter moderated the discussion. He characterized North Korea’s nuclear aspirations and its potential to produce enough plutonium for five to six bombs as one of the greatest threats to global security...
Sarah Jessica Parker and Bruce Willis received pudding pots last year. Other past winners include Meryl Streep, Glenn Close, Julia Roberts, Clint Eastwood, Tom Cruise, Steven Spielberg and Harrison Ford...
...that Idol will generate as much as $155 million in the next three years in Britain alone, including ad revenue and record sales. In the U.S., Fox paid about $1 million an episode for American Idol's 25-show run, and such a sum seems very reasonable in retrospect. Ford, Coca-Cola, AT&T, Clairol and Old Navy, among others, have signed on as advertisers for this year's version...
...innovative advertising executive who pioneered the money-saving strategy of buying multiyear packages of local television time (for clients like Ford Motor), Pool, 54, recently left Mindshare to take over North American operations for Universal McCann. She will manage local buys nationwide for a number of heavy hitters, including General Motors and Lowe's, and, of course, will try to make some rain...