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...Olmert's prospects were not helped by the fact that his longtime office manager, Shula Zakin, has been interrogated four times in the past two weeks by Israel's fraud squad, and that his personal attorney and the keeper of his secrets, Uri Messer, was spotted wandering despondently along the center divider of the main Tel Aviv-Jerusalem highway, according to Israeli media reports. (Messer claims he was simply lost.) Police investigators say that Messer, Zakin and businessman Talansky are all giving evidence in the criminal probe against Olmert. (Messer is being questioned for his role in managing Olmert...
...contrast in styles and probably the most competitive game on the board this week. The Pirates in a nailbiter.Prediction: Hampton 35, Princeton 31BROWN (1-2, 0-1) VS. HOLY CROSS (2-2)Over the last six seasons, Brown has the most overtime losses (it lost in double-OT against URI last week) in the Ivy League with four. Princeton has the most wins with five. Harvard (3-0) is the only undefeated Ancient Eight squad in bonus time in that span and Columbia (0-1) the only squad without a win. Prediction: Holy Cross 30, Brown 17PENN...
...searches corpses not for fingerprints but for missing fingers. Is this a flashback to Hitchcock's The 39 Steps? No, it's evidence that the dead man was a bombmaker. One of The Kingdom's best scenes has Fleury and Faris quizzing a retired terrorist (the effortlessly intimidiating Uri Gavriel). The old man holds up a hand with two missing fingertips and says, "Every bombmaker gets bitten by his own works...
...encouraged South Korea to take any steps that will help resolve the nuclear issue, and this meeting is going forward within that framework," says Kim Won Woong, chief of the National Unification Committee in South Korea's parliament and a member of Roh Moo Hyun's ruling Uri party. By contrast, in 2000, the parliamentarian told TIME, "neither the U.S. nor China [the North's most important ally] supported the inter-Korean summit. It's different this time." Now, not just the South Korean president wants to see the ice of the Cold War in Korea melting, but George...
...strident critics of Iran and hard-liners on maintaining the U.S. presence in Iraq. They include six current Bush Administration officials - among them U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Zalmay Khalilzad and his wife, Undersecretary of State Paula Dobriansky - as well as think-tank academics, conservative opinion columnists and Uri Lubrani, the top adviser on Iran to Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. Though it is not clear how many will actually attend the conference, a spokesman for the organizers, the Washington-based Foundation for Defense of Democracies, said the meeting was intended "to bring together a wide range...