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...support of Chalabi, who misled American leaders into attacking Iraq. Now Chalabi is being investigated for telling an Iranian spy about our having broken an Iranian secret code. That's a serious charge. Who revealed classified information to Chalabi, and will those people be fired? Or will Bush, as usual, not hold them accountable for their mistakes? John Wisdom Dancer Canoga Park...
...field trip for the 24 kindergartners from Woodside Avenue School has all the noisy excitement of the old-fashioned kind, with kids tumbling out of a school bus eager to see, hear and touch things outside their classroom. But the field-trip destination is not the usual venue, like a museum or zoo. It's a Petco store. Tour guide Jennifer Rohan, manager of the Ramsey, N.J., pet-supply emporium, lets the kids pet a quivering chinchilla ($129.99, food and shelter sold separately), squawk at a taciturn macaw named Oscar ($2,399.99) and find Nemo the clown fish...
...Dead's plot is as simple as that of a western (or, Hodges says, a samurai epic). The actors are more elements in a dark, elegantly realized landscape than fully incarnate characters. Among the things Hodges and Preston have stripped out of their film are all the usual explanations. What drove Will away from his successful criminal past? What does Charlotte Rampling's enigmatic restaurateur see in him? Instead, what we have to entertain us is style. As with Croupier, Hodges is not in any hurry to get to the point of his scenes, which are often quite underpopulated...
With property values soaring across the country, more and more IRA investors are putting some of their funds directly into real estate instead of just the usual stocks, bonds and mutual funds. Housewert, 58, has put half his retirement savings into investment properties and is considering pumping in even more. "Because of historically low interest rates, the volatility in the stock market and political unrest, people are really starting to look for more tangible assets for their retirement," says Tom Anderson, president of PENSCO Trust Co., an independent custodian of retirement plans. Here are some tips...
...more familiar now. Because the country had lived through the '80s, through all those poison pills and hostile takeovers and Donald Trump, the unapologetic materialism of the '90sthe stock options and IPOs, the $21 soup courses and 22-year-old millionaires (and Donald Trump!)seemed more like business as usual in the most literal sense of the words...