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...controlled, dismissing the charges as a part of slander campaign. The real reason, he said, was his informing Nazarbayev of his intentions to run for Presidency in 2012. An enraged Nazarbayev stripped his son-in-law of the ambassadorship and dispatched a group of top law enforcers aboard a special flight to bring the culprit home. They came back empty-handed. "Under the circumstances," Aliyev explained yesterday in a phone interview from Vienna to a Kazakh online magazine, "only a suicide will come back." Still, all entry points in Kazakhstan are on the alert to arrest Aliyev, should he attempt...
...time the action stops dead in order for the actors to sneer and bellow at one another-lots of traditional "Avast me hearties" dialogue, which tends to remind us that Errol Flynn and his hammy crews used to do this sort of thing with more brio and fewer special effects...
...Later in the weekend, celebs in the Star Wars world will be popping in, including Carrie Fisher and Anthony Daniels (C-3PO). And Lucas's special-effects gurus will dish some behind-the-scenes dirt on a panel...
...greatest cost comes from changing the plans," says Steve Ellis, vice-president of Taxpayers for Common Sense. Thomas Schatz, president of Citizens Against Government Waste, argues that tourists are just fine standing in lines outside the White House and the monuments. "Why Congress members thought they were so special to deserve this facility speaks to their attitude for spending in general," he says...
...Forcing the special meeting played directly to the Mayor's hand, since it came before a new council took office, including many aldermen who ran on a platform of higher wages and more affordable housing. Daley warned the new council Monday not to let the politics of yesteryear, of famously angry council wars, infiltrate the new body. But there is far more independence in the 50-member chamber now, with nine newcomers, including the wife of Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. And many are promising to hold Daley firm on his twin promises to wipe out homelessness and create affordable housing...