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...million severance contract, since canceled, amounted to embezzlement. Messier, who was freed last week on bail of j1.35 million, denies any wrongdoing. Under French law, being placed under judicial investigation is one step from being formally charged. But Messier said in March that he would welcome such a probe because it would enable him to defend himself; the formal declaration allows him access to all the evidence collected by the two magistrates. The sight of Messier in custody inevitably provoked feelings of schadenfreude - after all, in his glory days Messier lived in a swank Manhattan penthouse bought with Vivendi...
...Orwellian fable about an unnamed nation that is unmistakably Iraq, one ruled by a whimsical killer called Great Uncle. He likes Tommy Hilfiger cologne and fears germs so much that he obliges visitors, before they come near, to change into sterile surgeon's robes and submit to an anal probe. All the same, this is a clown with a cocked pistol in his belt, so sometimes the laughs come hard. When a pool tender at one of his many palaces lets the pH level of the water climb too high, Great Uncle has him shot...
...into corporations - a step toward partial privatization. The debate is sure to be electrifying. - By Terrence Murray Hard Times For Software Microsoft appealed the E.U. competition regulator's March ruling that the firm abused its dominant position in the PC operating system market. Meanwhile, Brussels antitrust officials revived a probe into allegations that U.S. chipmaker Intel abused its own market power to shut out rivals...
...that was responsible for launching the separate leaks probe, which Chalabi's backers see as just the latest in a long series of attempts by the agency to undermine him. Richard Perle, a Bush defense adviser who has met with White House officials to plead Chalabi's case, says, "The CIA has disliked Chalabi for a long time and has concocted a case against him." Chalabi has described the accusation that he gave intelligence to Iran as "nonsense...
DIED. SAM DASH, 79, former chief Watergate counsel, whose probe into the Oval Office's secret taping system helped set the stage for President Nixon's resignation; in Washington. The lifelong Democrat later drafted the independent-counsel law and in the '90s advised counsel Kenneth Starr on the Whitewater investigation of President Clinton...