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...also helped her more. When she got pregnant with twins (and without any particular official accomplishment), her popularity skyrocketed. But that proved temporary. It came out last summer she'd lied on her marriage license" to hide the fact that she's the fourth wife of her husband, Chuck Hunt. She got embroiled in a nasty fight with two Turnpike Authority board members she tried to fire for voting against a toll increase. She was tainted by a patronage scandal at her former employer, Massport and was put on the spot for lax oversight when two of the Sept...
...special forces are on Basilan Island training Philippine soldiers to hunt down the Abu Sayyaf Group, a terrorist gang holding three hostages, including two U.S. missionaries. Green Berets and Philippine Scout Rangers are watching the gang and may try a rescue soon. But the joint exercises are just a warm-up. Abu Sayyaf is more a gang of local kidnappers than a global Islamist terrorist organization. But two larger groups linked to al-Qaeda are in the Philippines. Better-trained soldiers and intelligence agents could help contain al-Qaeda operations inside the country and in nearby Indonesia, Singapore and Malaysia...
...Number of whales Japan will hunt annually for "science research" under its newly enlarged self-set quota...
American military deployments in the Philippines have created the exact opposite situation, with hundreds of U.S. troops (along with 6,000 Filipino soldiers) and millions of American dollars being poured into the hunt for a band of nominally Islamic bandits that Paul Wiseman of USA Today described as “little more than a band of young thugs.” Without question, these rebels—known as the Abu Sayyaf—need to be eliminated, but even taking into account the two American hostages held by the group, the regional nature of the Abu Sayyaf?...
...DIED. WALTER GOODMAN, 74, television critic, author and New York Times reporter; in Valhalla, New York. His 1968 book The Committee was widely praised and remains a prominent history of the House Committee on Un-American Activities, which under Senator Joseph McCarthy led the 1950s witch-hunt for communists...