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...killed halfway through a second tour in Anbar, while riding in the passenger seat of a humvee that was hit by a roadside bomb. "Twenty-five years is so short," his sister says, "but I am very lucky that I could call him a brother and a true best friend for that long...
...nation to throw off the yoke of European colonialism. It's hardly unusual that Chavez would want to promote such an anti-imperialist story - nor is it surprising that the man who will make the film is African-American Hollywood star and civil rights activist Danny Glover, a close friend of Chavez and of former left-wing Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide (who was overthrown and forced into exile in South Africa three years...
...currently dean of the Columbia School of Business, has also been mentioned as a contender for the post. ”If it’s raw politics, [his odds are] probably not very high,” said New York University Economics Department Chair Mark Gertler, a longtime friend and colleague of Hubbard. “If it’s competency, he has a very good chance.” Gertler added that Hubbard would be able to handle all aspects of the job. “I think what distinguishes him from the other candidates is that...
...Baroody isn't that kind of guy. He's a policy wonk whose father founded the American Enterprise Institute think tank; he ran his own Republican think tank in the early 1990s before he was ousted for insufficient partisanship. His friends say the fox-in-the-henhouse caricature distorts a public-minded family man with 19 grandchildren. "Do you have a friend you'd trust with your child, or your grandmother?" said Dennis Whitfield, who served with Baroody in President Reagan's Labor Department. "For me, that's Mike Baroody. You think he's not concerned about the safety...
...Both Lugovoi and Kovtun deny any involvement in the murder. In April, Lugovoi even suggested they might even apply for assistance from the Litvinenko Justice Foundation, established by Marina Litvinenko, family friend Alex Goldfarb and the exiled businessman Boris Berezovsky, who supplied $1 million in start-up funds. The foundation aims to keep up the pressure for Litvinenko's killers to be brought to justice and to help seek compensation for the 200-odd people who came into contact with the polonium 210 . "We have borne considerable financial loss due to medical testing, which I am still undergoing," said Lugovoi...