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...Lesson Before Dying. Demme collapsed after playing in a celebrity basketball game. DIED. CYRUS VANCE, 84, veteran public servant and former Secretary of State for Jimmy Carter; in New York City. Vance also worked in the Johnson Administration, and was credited for warding off a war between Greece and Turkey over Cyprus. Vance is best remembered, however, for quitting the Cabinet in 1980 over Carter's decision to send U.S. troops to rescue hostages in Tehran. DIED. AMPARO MONTES, 81, one of the last survivors of Mexico's golden age of music in the 1940s and '50s; in Mexico City...
...many as 100 calories more--than stated on the wrapper. Under Food and Drug Administration pressure, makers are promising to clean up their act. Bottom line: pick the right bar for your needs, but remember that you may do just as well with low-fat yogurt or a few turkey slices on whole wheat--and for less than the nearly $3 you will pay for the priciest bars...
...sensitive detonation system required some expertise. Another sign Reid had help is that the sporadically employed ex-con somehow managed to pay cash for plane tickets and hotel rooms during extensive travels throughout Europe and the Middle East. Finally, Reid's "losing" his passport after spending a summer visiting Turkey, Israel and Egypt is classic al-Qaeda strategy, allowing him to avoid the suspicion a traveler through terrorist hot spots might draw. Rather than being a lone wolf, Reid, the French official said, is precisely the kind of guy terrorist groups seek. "You don't find people that crazy...
...took over the State Department's Intelligence Bureau in 1985, I told my staff to send me all important stuff but no cables from any embassy on the subject of Cyprus negotiations. As fate would have it, I left that position years later to become U.S. Ambassador to Turkey...
...their significance is far deeper - Musharraf appears to be making an epic existential choice for a state that has for the past decade hovered on the brink of failure. Even sections of the Indian media have hailed him as "Pakistan's Ataturk," a reference to the founder of modern Turkey who salvaged a moderate Muslim state from the ruins of the Ottoman Empire...