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...British soldier on leave from his unit in Iraq was arrested for allegedly taking photos of other soldiers torturing Iraqi prisoners of war. Workers at a Tamworth photo shop called police when the soldier took the film to be developed. The Sun newspaper said the pictures showed a bound and gagged Iraqi POW dangling from a forklift truck. The army has launched an inquiry into the incident which...
...faltering economy has, meanwhile, taken a toll on Putin's approval rating, which has declined from 75% to 48% over the past three months. An increasingly violent Chechnya won't help his political fortunes. "Putin has manacled himself to a hell-bound train and can't get off," says Salambek Maigov, the official representative of rebel Chechen President Aslan Maskhadov. "He has made himself a hostage to the situation." --By Unmesh Kher. Reported by Yuri Zarakhovich/Moscow
Indeed, he has gone so far as to say that Harvard would revoke—if it had to—the early action admission of a student otherwise bound by an early decision admission to Yale if the applicant tried to wiggle out of his early decision commitment in order to accept a place at Harvard...
...Quidditch World Cup (Electronic Arts, all platforms, Winter 2003) The latest game for Harry Potter fans, Quidditch World Cup pits national teams of broom-bound wizards against each other in arena-sized aerial pursuit of the ball and the game-ending golden snitch. One problem posed by the books-if the team that caught the snitch always wins, what was the point in scoring goals?-is answered here by a slight tweaking of the rules: each goal scores 10 pts, and the snitch is worth 150. And yes, you get to play as the lightning-scarred Hogwarts hero himself...
...Garner camp has another fear: that some Iraqis may try to use the de-Baathification process to settle old scores, demanding that a boss be sacked for personal rather than political reasons. But generally U.S. officials are optimistic that the system can work. Says a Pentagon official: "We are bound to appoint some wrong people, but we are determined to correct any mistakes...