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...Tikriti, his half-brother, are the first of 12 senior Hussein allies in American custody to face trial. Al-Majid was implicated in poison-gas attacks against Iraqi Kurds in the late 1980s, for which he was nicknamed "Chemical Ali," and al-Tikriti is alleged to have overseen the 1982 razing of a village north of Baghdad. The trials will be broadcast live worldwide this spring from Baghdad...
...Ariz., psychic who lends her services to crime investigations, had earlier worked with Paramount on an unsuccessful reality pilot, Oracles, in which a panel of five seers gave readings to a studio audience. In 2003, the company asked if it could base a drama series on her, to be overseen by Glenn Gordon Caron of Moonlighting fame. The creator of a romantic private-eye series may not have seemed the natural choice to produce a creepy show about death and afterlife, but, DuBois says, "he really got the spirit--excuse the pun--of my work...
...right, Boeing can't afford to make the wrong call. Ulrich Horstmann, an aerospace analyst for Bayerische Landesbank in Munich, says: "If Boeing doesn't make the 7E7 a success, it has no more trumps in its hand." Don't think Stonecipher isn't aware of that. He has overseen a revamping of Boeing's commercial airplane unit and recently approved the firing of the head of the firm's sales team. He admits that Boeing has been arrogant in the past, but says he sees that dangerous overconfidence among the Airbus troops. "I've been listening to the Airbus...
Under the plan, which must be approved by a council vote, the current committee system would be replaced by three branches—grants, social and advocacy—which would meet separately and be overseen by an executive board. The entire council would only meet once or twice a semester, instead of the weekly meetings it now holds...
...Committee?) You can't even have a beer with a rank-and-file liberal these days without the conversation degenerating into paranoid fantasies about how evangelical leaders are at this very minute hunkered down in Bush überadviser Karl Rove's office plotting to institute an Old Testament theocracy overseen by Attorney General Jerry Falwell...