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...wishes came to pass. Arafat was interred last week in a temporary grave at the battered West Bank compound where he spent his final years, imprisoned by Israeli tanks. The closest he came to the Jerusalem holy site that Muslims call the Noble Sanctuary and Jews call the Temple Mount was the handfuls of dirt brought from the shrine to cover his casket. Palestinians attached handles to his marble tomb, to be ready for the day they can move it to the capital of their dreams...
...stopped calling on his sorry, dilapidated compound. For the first time since he emerged as the uncontested leader of the Palestinians in 1969, there was talk of others making a bid to replace Arafat, who had once ensured that none of his deputies were powerful or secure enough to mount a challenge...
...told that chief accounting officer Luciano Del Soldato, a 20-year Parmalat veteran, would continue handling the accounts as a consolation prize for not getting the CFO job. Ferraris reluctantly accepted the division of roles, but wasn't satisfied. So he asked two trusted members of his staff to mount a quiet investigation. After calling around Parmalat's worldwide operations, they came back with shocking news: a total debt estimate of €14 billion, more than double that on the balance sheet. "Until then, I never suspected the accounts were false," says Ferraris. He knew...
Mathews has links to Harvard beyond his potential transfer to the Crimson. The running back hails from the same high school—Mount Lebanon, in Pittsburgh—as Harvard safety James Harvey...
...American flag outside the Spee’s 76 Mount Auburn Street headquarters stood at half-mast last weekend, presumably mourning George W. Bush’s re-election. Yeah, totally—how could this country vote for such a cokehead? . . . In his new book I Am Charlotte Simmons, Tom Wolfe takes on the contemporary college culture of boozing, sex, hard drugs, and selfish hedonism at a campus that he says resembles “Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, Duke and a few other places rolled into one.” Thanks for the shoutout...