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...next day Private Corey Small died from a gunshot wound "in a noncombat incident," and Private First Class Jim Herrgott was killed by a sniper as he guarded the Iraqi National Museum. Three days later, Sergeant David Parson was shot in Baghdad while raiding a house, and Specialist Jeffrey Wershow was shot in the back of the head while guarding a U.S. delegation at Baghdad University. The next day gunner Chad Keith died when a bomb blew up his convoy on a Baghdad street...
...Igor Sechin, have been repeatedly singled out in the Russian press as playing a crucial role in the Khodorkovsky affair. Many observers feel they are a cover for Putin himself. "I don't see these folks as independent actors," says Michael McFaul, a professor at Stanford University and specialist in Russian politics. Pavlovsky maintains that the faction, not the President, is pushing this particular crusade. After crushing independent TV networks, the Petersburg group is falling victim to its own propaganda. "These are people who control TV news, who order programs and who have started believing what they see on television...
...former prosecutors say it would be difficult to make a criminal insider-trading case against the pair because the government would have to prove that Stewart knew the significance of Waksal's sale when she sold the stock. "It's a tricky case," says Greg Markel, a securities-law specialist at Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft in New York City. A broker passing along a tip from one client to another "is not that unusual," says John Teakell, a former SEC litigator in Dallas. (In Bacanovic's case, says a defense attorney, "it probably could have been a lot subtler...
...Flushed from cover, they may now be on the move again. Thaksin previously had appeared reluctant to officially join the U.S.-led war on terror. But the war in Iraq forced him to rethink his position, says Prapat Thepchatree, a foreign-policy specialist at Bangkok's Thammasat University. "Iraq showed him that the U.S. carried a big stick and anyone not falling into line would be punished," he says. "He knew he had to do something to mend ties with...
...their original carrier to give them an extension--which expired at the end of last week. What next? Will they change specialties? Will they change addresses to a less litigious state? And what of their 6,000 patients, who would have to drive an hour to the nearest lung specialist, in Chicago? "We doctors can move on," says Sosenko, tilting back in his office chair. "But our patients...