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...questions about possible conflicts of interest, which the U.N. denied. The scandal grew when evidence emerged that Saddam Hussein had skimmed some $2 billion from the $65 billion program. Last April Annan asked Paul Volcker, a former chairman of the Federal Reserve, to investigate those issues. In February his panel released its first report, accusing the head of the oil-for-food program of "grave conflict of interest" for steering lucrative oil contracts to friends and accepting cash payments. Volcker's second report, issued last week, focused in detail on Annan...
...says the report exonerates him. Not exactly. The panel clears Annan of any role in securing contracts for Cotecna. But it also spotlights his lax oversight of the corrupt program and makes a strong "adverse finding" that faults him for failing to investigate his son's dealings thoroughly. Annan asked for an in-house probe, which dismissed the issues within a day. An independent inquiry, the report said, would have made it unlikely that Cotecna's contract would have been renewed through...
...directly at U.S. spy agencies: prewar knowledge of Saddam's WMD was "dead wrong." Most of the material it was based on was "either worthless or misleading." Important for the President, the report states that his Administration didn't pressure intelligence analysts to support its conclusions about Iraq. The panel passed on the issue of whether senior officials hyped the bad info to justify the invasion...
...first proper story in "Or Else" #1, "NST '04," introduces many of Huizenga's recurring themes and techniques. It begins with a naturalistic scene of Glenn and his girlfriend idling in a cemetery at night. "The air was thick with the smell of baking bread," reads one panel. When a shuffling sound comes from behind them they turn to see "the undead" rising from their graves. Rather than linger on this classic horror set-up Huizenga instead abruptly shifts the scene to bison on the plains. Though at first taken as a visual non sequitur, this peculiar juxtaposition signals...
...explanation, which Huizenga depicts in a series of textbook-like drawings. These contrast with his figure style, which has a vague resemblance to the work of E. C. Segar and his "Popeye" characters with their soft shoulders and simplified faces. Huizenga concentrates less on the particular details of a panel in favor of its overall design. He also has no fear of actionless panels of environment to pace out the story. Even better, sometimes, if you look twice at a panel of a car driving in front a suburban home for example, you discover the toddler crossing the street...