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...Baathists have targeted the families of prosecutors and judges. The brother-in-law of Mohammed Oreibi al-Khalifa, the second trial's presiding judge, was gunned down last week in Baghdad. If putting Saddam on trial is intended to help Iraqis bury the demons of his murderous rule, the spate of vendetta killings has served as a reminder of the unchecked mayhem that has followed...
...need the guys in the middle because if we all defend together, we can all attack together, and that’s how we like to play.” However, to play the game on its own terms, the Crimson will have to bounce back from an unlucky spate of injuries suffered against Penn. Harvard is looking to prove that its health will not play into its chances for the rest of the season. Junior forward Matt Hoff and sophomore midfielder Michael Fucito were both hampered against Rhode Island by injuries sustained on Saturday. Stamatis was sidelined...
...Patterson, who seems to let Andrew Gross handle the writing duties these days, issued another generic thriller, “Judge & Jury.” Patterson, following in Tom Clancy’s footsteps, threatens to become the Franklin W. Dixon or Gertrude Chandler Warner of this generation. A spate of chick-lit also hit the market and fizzled, lacking creativity or, at the bare minimum, controversy...
...getting tougher these days to find people with a kind word to say for Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian. With supporters of his Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) disillusioned by a spate of corruption scandals involving Chen's family members and close advisers, and with the opposition calling loudly for his resignation, 64% of respondents to a TIME/CNN poll conducted last week by market-research company TNS said Chen should step down. Of those who want him out of office, 32% identified themselves as supporters of the opposition Kuomintang (KMT) party. But more than half claimed no political affiliation. And even...
...Cool Operator Mickey Spillane, the tough-guy author who became an icon of American pulp fiction, died last month at age 88 [July 31]. Our Oct. 26, 1959, cover story addressed the spate of TV detective dramas whose heroes owed a lot to Spillane's sleuth, Mike Hammer...