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...bosses circle the wagons until public clamor forces an inquiry by an elder statesman, who confirms the mistakes and many other management lapses but says they were the result of misjudgment rather than malign intent. Should the brass resign? In January, when the organization was the BBC and Lord Hutton concluded it had violated journalistic standards by accusing the government of sexing up the case for war in Iraq, Tony Blair was all for the departure of the BBC's chairman and Director General. Last week, though, he felt differently. This time the report was about him and his government...
...KILLED. AT LEAST 88 STUDENTS aged six to 13 at the Lord Krishna Middle School; in a fire that started in the school's kitchen; in Kumbakonam, south India. Police arrested the owner of the private school and four others for alleged negligence...
...Iraq had no significant chemical or biological weapons, if any, and had not developed plans for using them." REPORT, presented by Lord Butler, on Britain's prewar intelligence justifying the war in Iraq...
...which stands for "any question answered," is the London-based brainchild of Colly Myers, a mobile-industry veteran who used to run handheld device company Psion and cell-phone operating-system vendor Symbian, which he left in 2002. His idea for AQA flashed a year ago at Lord's cricket ground in London. While England was playing South Africa, Myers was struggling with a crossword puzzle that wanted four letters for a herring. "I sent a text to someone and got my answer [shad]," he says. "I thought, This is neat-let's press...
...omen for British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his intelligence chiefs, who are bracing themselves for the release this week of an independent report into the U.K.'s pre-invasion intelligence on Iraqi WMD. When he was appointed to head the inquiry back in February, former top civil servant Lord Butler said he would concentrate on intelligence "structures, systems and processes, rather than on the actions of individuals." But it's unlikely the leading players will get off scot-free. Some of the backwash is bound to swirl around Blair, as well as MI6's outgoing chief Richard Dearlove...