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...Dili. His father, a policeman, had returned home from his shift and put his pistol atop a cupboard before lying down for a nap. A short time later, his frantic wife burst into the room, saying their six-year-old son had hold of the gun. Then a shot rang out. Rushing outside, the couple found their youngest child, a six-months-old boy, dead from a bullet wound...
...senior members of the Sunni Tawafuk bloc refused to enter the session, leaving the Speaker with little choice but to reschedule the vote for Thursday. "We want our demands met, and they have not been," said Omar Abdel-Sattar al-Karboole, a member of Tawafuk, as the bell rang. (See photos of five years of U.S. troops in Iraq...
...call from a Maryland woman named Linda Tripp, who said her friend Lewinsky had had an affair with Bill Clinton, and that superlawyer Vernon Jordan was trying to land her a job to buy her silence in the ongoing Paula Jones sexual-harassment suit against the President. The story rang a bell with the prosecutors, who had been pursuing evidence that Jordan helped obtain a lucrative consulting contract for another Clinton pal who was a potential witness in the Whitewater land-deal probe. Starr's team had heard enough from Tripp to wire her up for a planned meeting...
...because his actions were not illegal, local police told him to cease and desist. Similar calls resumed in 2003, though there was no confirmed link to the man in Florida. Onofrey said the oddity of the call was less unusual than just getting a call itself. When the phone rang, “my roommate picked up the camera because this was the momentous event,” she said...
...rang Slater a few days later from London, where he was head of foreign exchange for investment bank Merrill Lynch. It would be a few years before Key could extricate himself from the world of finance, and he entered Parliament in 2002; he became the party's leader four years later. And on Nov. 8, the political career launched by that call culminated in a resounding election victory for Key and National, ending nine years of Labour rule under Helen Clark. On the night, hundreds of supporters gathered outside Key's mansion in the affluent Auckland suburb of Parnell. "That...