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...DIED. AHN SANG-YOUNG, 65, mayor of Pusan, South Korea's second-largest city, of apparent suicide, while being held in jail as he awaited the verdict in a corruption trial; in Pusan. Ahn, who was re-elected as mayor in 2002, was jailed in October on charges of taking $85,500 in bribes from a construction company and was under investigation for allegedly accepting $256,400 from a bus company...
More controversial than Hutton's verdict on the BBC was his conclusion that the government had no "dishonorable, underhand or duplicitous" plot to reveal Kelly's name to reporters once Kelly had told his bosses at the Ministry of Defense that he had met Gilligan but had not said all the things the reporter had broadcast. Yet the diary of Blair's communications director, Alastair Campbell, shows that he was obsessed with outing Kelly, sure that this would "f___ Gilligan." Hutton focused instead on the worry of some officials that if they concealed that a civil servant had come forward...
...hand, Blair and his government were comprehensively cleared by the inquiry's report. On the other, the exoneration was so total that it may create problems for Blair by leaving his detractors unmoved. One poll showed that 50% of the British public was unconvinced by the verdict. Another showed that only 10% of the public trusted the government to tell the truth...
...much as they want to know the justice systems are keeping politicians honest - and focused exclusively on the work they were elected to do. This case is evidence that that's happening." But French voters aren't letting their guards down just yet. Political reaction to the Juppé verdict ranged from attacks on Chirac and surprising sympathy from some opposition Socialists to assaults on the court's legitimacy from the right. Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin reacted with "surprise" to a verdict he qualified as "provisional" - even before Juppé decided to appeal. ump Minister Delegate for Schools Xavier...