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...sensible idea, with one small problem: finding a third party. An aide suggests dispatching troops from Singapore deployed in Iraq to the site, but they don't have bomb-damage-assessment experience. Someone else brings up the U.N.'s antimine unit. "The Mozambicans," Bremer ventures, referring to a group of mine-clearing specialists from Mozambique. "Are they working for us?" The idea is discussed for a few more minutes before Bremer moves on. Like so many problems in the new Iraq, this is one the U.S., for the moment, has little choice but to leave unresolved...
...close observer of Texas politics e-mailed this description of him: "Thoughtful. Conspiratorial. Crusader. Half-whacked. Smart. Insightful. Wise. Nuts." Well, not nuts. But most of it has a kernel of truth. Earle's reputation as conspiratorial derives largely from the workings of his office's public-integrity unit, a watchdog office that prosecutes those (including elected officials) who commit crimes in the course of their dealings with the state. Earle's job, in other words, is to root out conspiracies...
...soldier was killed while investigating the theft of a car. In Baghdad, a soldier was shot in the head while shopping in a store, and another was killed and four were wounded when their convoy was attacked in the northern part of the city. Two soldiers from an artillery unit were abducted from a rocket-demolition site they had been guarding north of Baghdad. Two days later Central Command announced that their bodies had been found...
...Bahn (DB) wasn't able to cater to its just-on-time production schedule. At the time Germany, acting ahead of many of its neighbors, had begun allowing private freight operators to move their goods within the nation on state-owned track, so BASF set up Rail4Chem. The railroad unit was spun off in 2001, and has since been run by Raith, a former state prosecutor who switched to business mid-career and spent years trying to revive industrial companies in eastern Germany. BASF remains an important client, but Rail4Chem also moves chemicals across Europe for other companies. Business...
...sequel picks up the tale of the original game's survivors, along with a handful of others who have managed to keep their heads. They've organized into a terrorist unit called the Wild Seven, a group dedicated to exacting explosive retribution on the society that wants them dead. The government, in turn, recruits yet another class of kids to hunt down the vigilantes on their island stronghold. Leader of the Wild Seven is Shuya Nanahara, played by fiery-eyed 21-year-old Tatsuya Fujiwara. In the first film, Nanahara is a somber schoolboy who survives more due to luck...