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...allies in Iraq last weekend suggested that capturing Saddam and putting him on trial would be preferable to killing him. Britain's UN ambassador, Sir Jeremy Greenstock, who takes up his post as deputy to U.S. administrator in Baghdad Paul Bremer in September, argued strongly in a BBC interview that Saddam should be taken alive and brought to court. That call was echoed by Ahmed Chalabi, once the Pentagon's most-favored Iraqi exile and now serving on the Bremer-appointed Governing Council. Putting Saddam on trial would allow Iraqis to own the process of their liberation from his regime...
...They're like, 'Did you have sex with her? You did? No, sir! For real? I can't believe it.'" BEN AFFLECK, discussing his hometown friends' disbelief that he is dating Jennifer Lopez...
...crazy quilt of back-office software with his product. An executive gave him an unusual brush-off, telling him the bank's system was so complex that only God could figure it out. Hukku, the chairman and managing director of Bombay-based i-flex solutions, made a deft save. "Sir, we are Indians," he said. "We are very religious, and very close to God." Hukku won the business. Now he's trying to pull off another miracle: making his company the first Indian software producer to establish itself as a global brand...
...Model Consort Our Milestone on the death of Sir Denis Thatcher [July 7], husband of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, noted that in public he was the loyal spouse while in private he acted as a critical sounding board for his wife. We profiled him in an Aug. 14, 1989, report: "In public life, Denis, as all Britain calls him, is discretion personified. 'So long as I keep the lowest-possible profile, neither write nor say anything, I avoid getting into trouble,' he says. This rigorously observed tenet has helped establish Denis as a model consort ... Lanky and white...
...DIED. SIR DENIS THATCHER, 88, graceful, independent-minded husband of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher; in London. Often satirized as a comic, golf-obsessed gin swiller, the retired oil executive handled his job as the First Mate of Britain's first female Prime Minister with aplomb, happily trailing behind his wife in public yet privately acting as a loyal consort and critical influence. He was, he once said, the most "shadowy husband of all time...