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APPOINTED. CRISTETA COMERFORD, 41, as Executive Chef at the White House; in Washington, D.C. Comerford, who was born in the Philippines and trained in classic French cooking, was selected after a six-month search, becoming the first woman to hold the position. She will prepare all of the first family's meals, as well as state and official dinners. CLOSED. AN INQUIRY into the shooting of Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian and Vice President Annette Lu on the eve of the March 2004 presidential elections; by the Supreme Prosecutors Office; in Taipei. Officials concluded that Chen Yi-hsiung, a retired...
...six-month run is virtually sold out, but booking agents may be persuaded to part with certain tickets at $1,000 a pop. Or you can go to the multiplex in December and catch the duo in the movie version of The Producers musical. --By Richard Corliss...
...Sepik heads might have fetched thousands of dollars apiece from collectors in the U.S. or Europe. Exporting the skulls without the rarely given special permit carries a maximum six-month jail sentence, Eoe says: it breaches not only the Cultural Property Preservation Act but part of the criminal code related to interfering with human remains. Yet in p.n.g., where corruption is pervasive and police are so poorly resourced they struggle to obtain fuel for mobile patrols, investigating non-violent crime is not a priority. Time has learned that none of the people involved in the apparent attempt to export...
Unless the constitution committee asks for a six-month extension, these squabbling groups plan to submit a draft by month's end so that Parliament can vote on it by Aug. 15. Already some fear that the Sunnis may want to keep up their recalcitrance in order to force new elections. But Shi'ite and Kurdish members say they will vote the constitution out of the committee without the Sunnis if they must, and the U.S. is willing to back them up. If the Sunnis derail the process, says the U.S. official, "we'll know who to blame." --By Christopher...
...KM/H Speed of the collision between NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft and the comet Tempel 1?the climax of a six-month, $333 million mission to study the comet's composition $300 MILLION Damages sought by Russian astrologer Marina Bai, who claimed that the celestial crash "ruins the natural balance of forces in the universe" and skews her horoscope predictions