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...anchor of No. 3-ranked CBS Evening News; effective March 9, 2005. The longest-serving evening news anchor, Rather made his reputation, in his words, as a "reporter-anchor, not an anchor-reporter." Career highs included covering the assassination of John F. Kennedy, winning the first interview with Saddam Hussein after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990, and, earlier this year, breaking the story of abuse at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison. More overtly emotional than his fellow network anchors, Rather was famous for folksy Southern "Danisms" like "This race is hotter than a Times Square Rolex...
...reported by her family and Arabic news network al-Jazeera, which received a video that appeared to show her being shot in the head. The Irish-born aid worker fell in love with Iraq after moving there with her Iraqi-born husband in 1972. Through Saddam Hussein's rule and Gulf War bombings she stayed, learning Arabic and converting to Islam. She became a spokeswoman for Iraqi children suffering in the wake of the Gulf...
...congressional committee estimated last week that Saddam Hussein collected more than $20 billion, almost double the previous estimate, by cheating United Nations sanctions. Here's a primer for understanding the controversy, which seems to sweep up more diplomats and businesses every...
...thought bubble. Take a moment and make it a good one. In the meantime, here's the caption: Sopranos stars JAMES GANDOLFINI and Tony Sirico mixed and mingled with troops as part of a U.S.O. tour. After a stop at Camp Doha, Kuwait, where Gandolfini posed with a Saddam Hussein bust, the TV mobsters headed to Iraq. The duo even donned fatigues. The gunning, however, they left to the professionals--as far as we know...
...Secretary of Defense has a dreadful track record when it comes to intelligence. In Bush's first term, Rumsfeld set up an Office of Special Plans in the Pentagon to challenge the CIA's cautious analysis of Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction by touting the incendiary garbage provided by Iraqi exiles. That is, I suppose, a version of intelligence reform: a system in which fantasies are produced to support the President's policy preferences. But it is not the version proposed by the 9/11 commission-and it is time for Bush to make clear whether he supports...