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...confronted Pyongyang in 2002 with intelligence it claimed to have about the program, and according to U.S. diplomats at the time, Pyongyang confirmed it did indeed exist. Since then, the North has denied it has such a program-and now even Washington appears less certain. Last week, Joseph DeTrani, a key intelligence official, stunned a Senate panel by testifying that analysts now only had a "mid confidence level" about the program's existence...
...Joseph Grundfest, a Stanford Law School professor, attributes a recent drop in shareholder lawsuits to aggressive government enforcement following the Enron fraud. But others say Grundfest discounts more likely causes: a relatively steady stock market and the criminal investigation of the law firm that files most shareholder suits. And even if he's right, a strategy of criminal prosecution is still a bad idea...
DIED. Ernest Gallo, 97, vintner tycoon; just weeks after the death of his younger brother, cheesemaker Joseph Gallo; in Modesto, Calif. He grew up on a vineyard owned by his father, an immigrant from the wine-rich region of Piedmont, Italy. After their parents died, Ernest and his brother Julio began E. & J. Gallo Winery in 1933 with $5,900 and a wine recipe from a public library. With Ernest directing the company's innovative marketing campaigns, the duo turned the distinctly American family business into one of the world's largest winemaking empires...
...which provides the perfect excuse to get smashed while sporting ridiculous outfits. Campus Rabbi and Orthodox Rabbinic Advisor Avi Poupko came dressed as the Pope in full regalia, complete with a guitar on his back. Former Jewish band member Raphael S.N. Nemes ’05 and his friend Joseph D. Tarkoff took a less religious approach, dressing up as Borat and Azumat, respectively. Miriam R. Hinman ’08 also veered away from a Jewish-inspired costume. She was dressed as Pippi Longstocking with long striped socks and pigtails that defied gravity with help from a hidden wire...
...felony charges at the heart of the high-profile case were built around evidence that Libby lied when he denied leaking the identity of CIA operative Valerie Plame to reporters. Plame is married to Joseph Wilson, the former ambassador who wrote an op-ed piece in 2003 debunking the WMD justifications for the Iraq war. Libby supposedly leaked Plame's name as part of a White House campaign to discredit Wilson...