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...weren't developing correctly," she said. The soft-spoken sergeant asked how long she had considered murder. Two years, she said. "Since I realized I have not been a good mother to them." Mehl watched her movements. She looked him in the eye. She nodded. Sometimes she answered, "Yes, sir." But she would sit in 15 seconds of stone-cold silence if he asked too much. She could give only short answers to simple questions in their 17-minute conversation as she twice recounted the order in which her children were born and died...
...membership of the Lords is called - followed three years later. Not everyone was so lucky. Four men recommended for peerages last year were blocked by the House of Lords Appointments Commission amid concerns that they had recently dipped into their pockets for Labour. One of the men, entrepreneur Sir Gulam Noon, claimed he had been encouraged to omit details of a $460,000 loan to the party from his application form. The police have indicated that they may quiz Blair in the course of their investigation. "This mess was inevitable," says Labour M.P. and former Europe Minister Denis MacShane...
...still sound like a denizen of Helengrad. New Zealand's Labor-led government has taken quite a different diplomatic and military approach, its impeccable morality matching its near irrelevance as a Polynesian statelet in the broader realm of world affairs. Just on the political surface, never mind what the Sir Humphreys are doing, Australia has Alexander Downer and Kevin Rudd leading the foreign affairs debate. Winston Peters? Say no more...
Sometimes even presidents have to wait for the news. George W. Bush was meeting with aides in the Oval Office last Wednesday when he turned to National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley for an update on Iraq. "Do you have news for me?" Bush asked. Hadley did. "Sir, I'd like to talk to you alone," Hadley said, clearing the room of other aides. When one of them returned, Bush let the aide in on the secret: "I think we got Zarqawi...
...Sir Michael Atiyah is a British mathematician who made field-changing discoveries in string theory and superspace beginning over four decades ago. After winning the Fields Medal in 1966 for his work on topological K-Theory, Atiyah continued to revolutionize mathematical subfields, including geometry and theoretical physics. The Atiyah-Singer Index Theorem, which he developed with MIT’s Isadore M. Singer, earned the duo the 2004 Abel Prize, given by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters...