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...after just eight months on the job. The troubled auto giant--now 60% owned by the U.S. government--has shown modest signs of economic improvement, but Henderson, a company veteran, clashed with directors seeking quicker change. Chairman Ed Whitacre, a former head of AT&T, will take over as interim...
...someone has a genuine past history of suicidal thoughts and is started on an anti-depressant and then a second anti-depressant is added, having appointments several weeks apart with no scheduled interim contact and no review apparently by a psychopharmacologist, this sounds like substandard care,” Fogel said...
...Shabab. Though not as far-reaching or well-known as al-Qaeda, the Somalia-based al-Shabab is particularly troubling to American officials due to its active recruitment of U.S. citizens - particularly from the large Somali community in and around Minneapolis - to join its battle against Mogadishu's weak interim government. In October 2008, the first known American suicide bomber - a 26-year-old Somali-American fighting with al-Shabab - blew himself up in northern Somalia. In one of the broadest domestic terrorism investigations since Sept. 11, federal officials have charged 14 people with recruiting an estimated 20 Americans...
...world's most lawless - has killed more than 19,000 people in the past three years alone.) Al-Shabab's membership is estimated to number in the thousands; its fighters are identifiable by their red-and-white scarves. The group began fighting Ethiopian troops and the weak interim government almost immediately after the invasion; today it controls large areas of the nation's central and southern regions. Al-Shabab carries out near daily attacks against the government as well as against aid groups and African Union peacekeepers operating in the country. Its members are mainly Somalis, though it has also...
...Chairman Edward E. Whitacre announced he would serve as the interim chief executive in a press conference Tuesday, making him G.M.’s third chief executive in nine months...