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...mission to the U.N. submit their résumés for review. The move cast a chill over the operation, where some saw it as presumptuous. It may also have been premature. --With reporting by Massimo Calabresi, John F. Dickerson, Michael Duffy, Viveca Novak, Elaine Shannon, Mark Thompson and Adam Zagorin/Washington
...reality is that life-and-death decisions are made every day around the country. That this situation rose to such notoriety was shameful for everyone involved. The folks on both sides of the bitter controversy should cease all their ax grinding and let Terri rest in peace. Scott Thompson Dallas...
...high-profile Western firms, including BP. So the firm agreed to start paying for Eldorado only in 2008. In essence, Dixons has given itself a three-year trial period to determine if it really wants to be in Russia. "It's a no-risk option," says Dixons spokesman Hamish Thompson...
...synfuels turned sour, mismanagement and improprieties within the SFC also contributed to the agency's political problems. Its first president, Victor Schroeder, resigned in 1983 amid accusations that he had improperly charged $25,000 in mortgage payments on his home to the SFC. A year later his successor, Victor Thompson, stepped down soon after it came to light that a Tulsa bank he had headed had been the target of an investigation for securities violations. No criminal charges resulted from the investigation. Early on, the SFC earned a reputation for inefficiency and waste. Says Iowa Congressman James Leach, a Republican...
Keillor learned to harmonize when he was a boy singing hymns with his family, and he does a lot of singing on the show. Butch Thompson, who plays clarinet and barroom piano, and Peter Ostroushko, who plays fiddle, guitar and mandolin, are regulars on the show, and Atkins, Emmylou Harris, Scottish Folk Singer Jean Redpath, Fiddler Johnny Gimble and a great many others are irregulars. Keillor's tastes are dizzyingly eclectic, though he cherishes what he calls "an irrational distaste for banjos and a normal dislike of operatic sopranos...