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...that officials believe were used to hide the journalist. Caldwell did not specify when exactly the arrests occurred, but another U.S. official, Lt. Col. Barry Johnson, tells TIME the suspects were detained in mid- to late May, not two months after Carroll was recovered. He says the story was withheld to give the military enough time to investigate possible connections to other terrorist cells in Iraq. Also, he says, "we were simply trying to respect Jill's wishes - we didn't want to talk about these events before she was ready to talk about...
Three major expected donations to Harvard totalling $265 millon have been withheld since University President Lawrence H. Summers announced his resignation in February, according to a Wall Street Journal article published yesterday...
...friends. It was there, says Betsy Andreu, then the fiancé of one of Armstrong's cycling teammates, that the future cycling giant admitted to being juiced. According to Andreu's testimony from October 2005 in an arbitration case between Armstrong and SCA Promotions, a Dallas-based insurance firm that withheld a $5 million bonus from him over doping allegations, a doctor came into the room and asked Armstrong, "Have you ever used any performance-enhancing drugs?" Armstrong's response, according to Andreu: "Yes." Andreu says Armstrong listed for the doctor the banned drugs he had taken: growth hormone, cortisone...
...much of Britain today, being an Etonian is not something you really want to brag about. The well of resentment is too deep. Rory, a student in his fourth year (students' last names are being withheld at the school's request), still regrets answering honestly on a transatlantic flight when his seatmate asked where he went to school. "For six hours he kept making snide remarks," he says. Douglas Hurd, Margaret Thatcher's Foreign Secretary, wrote in his memoir that his family believed "that if I had not gone to Eton I would have become Prime Minister in 1990." (That...
...evading the press; by the time critics are able to turn their acid pens on Hollywood’s latest trash, the damage to film fans’ wallets will already be done. Critics lose. Moviegoers lose. Studios win…maybe. Savvy cineastes already know that films withheld from critics are usually terrible, and avoid them accordingly. Fans disappointed by this season’s batch of un-reviewed movies—including stinkers like the Comedy Central spin-off “Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector” and the Mo’Nique star vehicle...