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...attacks, Kirkuk, like Kurdish fields, would have huge advantages over other Iraqi sites: its output could be piped a short distance to Turkish refineries without passing through any war zones. Whether the gushers come in or not, Kurdistan is already booming. On the border with Turkey, about a half-hour drive from the DNO rig, it's clear Kurdistan has become Europe's gateway to Iraq. Trucks from Turkey, Austria, Bulgaria, Germany and the Netherlands are backed up for many kilometers. Sea cargo from Dubai is diverted through Jordan, Syria and Turkey before reaching Kurdistan, where it is transferred...
...also his boss, and was told not to worry. But as accounting irregularities kept surfacing, Dubro continued to raise the issue with the director and eventually took the matter up with one of the visiting inspectors who oversee local Opus operations. "I sat with him for an hour," says Dubro. "He said, 'These things don't happen in Opus Dei.' Then he asked how my spiritual life was going." (A spokesman for Opus Dei says he is not familiar with the details of this case but that "nobody was trying to cheat anyone...
...service, which was broadcast outside over loudspeakers and on three mammoth television screens that had been erected in Hyde and Regent's parks, lasted just over an hour. It demonstrated again the soothing, cathartic power of ritual, the way in which ceremony can provide a shared context for personal grief. There were two dramatic diversions from the normal order of things. First, Elton John sang Candle in the Wind, a song he had originally written to celebrate Marilyn Monroe, with the lyrics revised to honor his friend Diana. A number of people had questioned the propriety of a rock star...
...They should enjoy the peace, because there may be chaos come Monday. An activist group has laid extensive plans for "hundreds of gay, lesbian and transgender families" to show up at the six-hour Egg Roll. The National Park Service gives out free tickets, and the Family Pride Coalition, a 25-year-old group that formerly was the Gay Fathers Coalition and now calls itself "dedicated to equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) parents and their families," has marshaled volunteers to try to scoop up as many tickets as they can, five at a time. "We want...
...miles from the house where the team party took place. The officer, responding to a 911 call, noted that the accuser was in a drunken state. "She's just passed out drunk," the officer says. Defense lawyers also point to the officer's statement that he has a "24-hour hold" situation - meaning possibly a night in jail on a drunk and disorderly charge. Defense lawyers tell TIME they will argue that it was expressly to avoid that possibility that the accuser fabricated the rape charge. "I know which I'd choose," says one defense attorney...