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...other officers. That's why it came as a surprise to his wife and three daughters when he finally revealed that he could barely recall a day when he hadn't contemplated suicide. "I'd exhibit confidence, arrogance and self-esteem," he says, "but I was a mess inside...
...decades the global mogul has made a habit of replacing successful bosses within his vast $17.5 billion News Corp. empire (which owns 35.4% of BSkyB). But even if it's in character, Ball's removal, if true, raises serious questions. After all, BSkyB wasn't falling, so why mess with a winning formula? Or is Ball leaving of his own accord? Does he have a better offer? Is James Murdoch best qualified to run one of Europe's largest public media companies? And does the potential shake-up mean that BSkyB's best days are behind it? One thing...
...spend less, not more, money on the occupation. Such sentiments will increase, no doubt, as the occupation slogs on, the casualties and bills mount. The U.S. military dreads another Baghdad summer. By next spring the door will be wide open for a let's-get-out-of-this-mess challenge to the President. Happily, none of the major Democrats chose to walk through that utterly irresponsible door last week, but Dean--who is on the record as favoring more American troops and more money--opened it a crack. "If we need more troops, they are going to be foreign troops...
...Either way, it foreshadows violence among Iraq's various groups. For an occupying force--as the old imperial powers learned the hard way--keeping public order in such circumstances is the hardest of all tasks. Sooner or later, everyone hates the outsider. The occupation of Iraq has been a mess for months. It just got a whole lot messier. --With reporting by Timothy J. Burger and James Carney/Washington
...Bombay landmark and one of the city's most popular tourist spots. Once there, the family told the driver to wait for them while they had lunch. Within a few minutes of their departure, the taxi exploded, turning the square in front of the Gateway into a bloody mess of corpses and mangled limbs...