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...arrives with a plastic, gold-painted key given to her son in school. "They told the boys that if they went to war and were lucky enough to die, this key would get them into heaven." A cousin from the front lines confirms the use of underclass children as mine fodder. One chilling page depicts the silhouettes of exploding bodies with keys around their necks contrasted with the panel below, of Satrapi and friends jumping around at a party...
...must become much more efficient and more clever in the ways we find new sources of data, mine information from the new and old, generate information, make it available for analysis, convert it to knowledge, and create actionable options," Poindexter said last year. Poindexter has been controversial for his role in the Reagan administration Iran-Contra scandal, which led to a 1990 conviction for providing false information to Congress, though that verdict was ultimately overturned...
...INVOLVED WITH THE MCCARTON SCHOOL? I had a friend of mine, his son is autistic, and I thought, Well, geez, what's the least I can do? And I guess it's host a dinner...
...settlement may prove to be a gold mine in another way. The volumes of Wall Street documents released through the historic settlement--including memos and e-mail--contain some evidence highly damaging to the securities firms. These documents could help investors bring their own cases or join class actions. New York attorney general Eliot Spitzer, whose 2002 investigation and settlement with Merrill Lynch have nourished a number of investor suits, has made thousands of pages of documents available on the Web (www.oag.state.ny.us). Investors have several paths to seek restitution...
...friend of mine wrote me a congratulations note, and I didn’t know what she was talking about,” said Julie D. Rosenberg ’03, who won for her social anthropology thesis on stigmatization in the treatment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in Lima, Peru. “So I went online...and there...