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...than the average for the U.K. as a whole. For the politicians still struggling to make the peace process work, it's a timely reminder that, even if the guns aren't pointed at each other, stable government can still be a matter of life and death - By Chris Thornton Britons Freed U.K. Home Secretary Jack Straw announced that five of nine British prisoners held on suspicion of terrorism for two years at the U.S. detention center at Guantánamo Bay are to be released. Straw said it would be up to police and prosecutors to decide whether...
...wasn't such an amateurish fraud detected earlier? Grant Thornton, Parmalat's primary auditor for most of the 1990s and still auditor of some of its subsidiaries, initially said it too had been duped. But on New Year's Eve, Grant Thornton suspended the head of its Italian affiliate and another partner after the two were arrested as part of the investigation. The men have denied any wrongdoing...
...foulmouthed, alcoholic and, from time to time, incontinent. He's not just a bad Santa, he's the anti-Santy. Willie T. Stokes (Billy Bob Thornton) has only one talent, which is for cracking safes, and one M.O., which is taking an annual job as a department-store Kris Kringle, using that cover to case the joint and lifting all the seasonal cash from its strongbox on Christmas Eve. In this he is abetted by Marcus (Tony Cox), who plays Willie's helpful elf by day and then worms his way through tight spaces to disarm security systems by night...
...Loews Theater on 72nd Street and 2nd Avenue in Manhattan on a rainy November afternoon. About halfway through Love Actually, Hugh Grant, playing the irrepressibly charming if undeniably naïve British Prime Minister, welcomes the American president to 10 Downing Street. The president, played by Billy Bob Thornton with a mixture of Bushie intransigence and Clintonian lecherousness, first refuses to give an inch in political negotiations and then makes a (somewhat successful) move on the attractive personal assistant on whom Grant has set his heart...
...London suspended last year just as it was about to collapse. Britain and the Republic of Ireland last week began trying to arrange talks aimed at rebuilding a coalition of unionists and nationalists, but the D.U.P.'s hard-line stance didn't leave much room for optimism. - By Chris Thornton Toll Mounts IRAQ Seven members of a Spanish intelligence team were killed and one wounded in an ambush on a highway south of Baghdad . The attack brought the number of Spaniards killed during the conflict...