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...emerging from the Cole Inquiry is remote from the way officials regard themselves or the way they have generally been seen by the public. The canap?s-and-cocktails crowd whose mission is to protect and pursue Australia's interests is not superhuman. dfat officials who were watching events in prewar Iraq, acting as a "postbox" for AWB contracts under the U.N. aid program and keeping their ministers up to speed, are just like the rest of us - they forget where information comes from and the names of people they deal with on official business. dfat loses important letters, officials perform...
...plus volumes of fiction and criticism to be published in English. With his focus on family and changing times, Kojima quickly became a star of the "third generation" of Japanese novelists. Along with Shusaku Endo, Shotaro Yasuoka and others, he absorbed the staid realism of the prewar generations and added new energy and introspection. Now 91, Kojima lives quietly in Tokyo...
...there was a connection between al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein long after others in the Administration had backed off. He said American troops would be greeted as liberators in Iraq and maintained that Saddam had amassed stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction. When the Administration was charged with distorting prewar intelligence, Cheney went after the critics as "dishonest and reprehensible...
...misdeeds on three continents. Revelations about how the Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff allegedly bought influence in the U.S. Congress have made a mockery of claims for clean government. The U.N. is struggling to recover from its own high-level corruption scandal relating to the oil-for-food program in prewar Iraq. And, at a time when stock markets are booming, the global economy is growing at its fastest clip in three decades and chief executives are cutting themselves huge paychecks, ordinary people the world over have cause to complain about being locked out of the party...
...sleaze on both sides of the Atlantic. Revelations about how Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff allegedly bought influence in Congress have made a mockery of claims to clean government. The U.N. is struggling to recover from its own high-level corruption scandal relating to the oil-for-food program in prewar Iraq...