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...Saddam's capture has not ended suicide bombings or other terrorist attacks. The bombing of a New Year's Eve party in Baghdad, for instance, killed eight and left 35 injured. A senior Iraqi source tells TIME that the suicide bombings appear to be carried out by foreigners, not by Saddam loyalists. From the remains of such bombers, the source says, authorities have determined that most were Yemeni, some were Syrian, and a few Saudi Arabian...
...show Fox is still popular, "he keeps overestimating the political power of that personal appeal," says pri Congressman Carlos Flores. Fox has also seemed hesitant or unable to tackle dark human-rights abuse cases from the PRI era, including the massacre of hundreds of pro-democracy demonstrators on the eve of the 1968 Mexico City Summer Olympics. All that, combined with a weaker peso and a stagnant economy that is hemorrhaging factory jobs to China, resulted in the pan losing more than 50 seats in the 500-member lower house of Congress in last July's midterm elections...
...possum has landed!" Crowd at the New year's Eve possum drop, an annual ritual in Brasstown, North Carolina, that parodies the dropping of a ball in New York's Times Square. A live possum is used
...Seven other executives were arrested last week, and Tanzi's son Stefano was questioned by prosecutors. The size of the alleged fraud could make Parmalat the biggest corporate scandal ever in Europe, easily on a par with Enron or WorldCom in the U.S. Parmalat filed for bankruptcy on Christmas Eve, and corporate-turnaround expert Enrico Bondi is trying to salvage what he can of the firm, which has 36,000 employees in 30 countries and top-selling brands including Parmalat uht milk and Archway cookies. On Friday, dozens of company workers and small shareholders in Collecchio - Parmalat's headquarters...
...remember when Playboy magazine was forbidden fruit - Eve and her apple in the Garden of Guilt. This was in the 50s, when everything priapic was prohibited, and when I was just grazing my teen years. Like a boy sidling up to the pharmacy counter to ask for, demand, his first condom, the 13-year-old Child Corliss sought out Playboy at distant drug stores, put my 50 cents in the palms of blind newsies. Before Playboy, the only magazines I had bought were comic books. Hugh M. Hefner had connived to introduced me both to the publishing industry...