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Saad bin Laden ASSUMED ALIVE --Osama's son is only about 22 but Arab sources claim he has taken over the reins of al-Qaeda. U.S. officials downplay the likelihood that junior is in charge, but they say his role has increased since 9/11. Intel reports suggest Saad, a finance and logistics guy, is hiding out separately from his father on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border...
...muscle behind a policy of regime change in Baghdad. September 11 made the mainstream more receptive to a position previously confined to conservative think tanks - America had been alerted to its own vulnerability, and Perle, Wolfowitz and others warned that leaving Saddam's regime in place increased the likelihood of a chemical or biological attack on these shores...
...Cheney's Halliburton in 1998, the accountants (from--where else?--Arthur Andersen) allowed the company to count uncollected bills--cost overruns from fixed-price construction contracts--as revenue. Under standard accounting rules, overruns should be listed as a cost unless there is a likelihood the bills will be collected--and in the construction industry, overruns can be hotly contested. But in 1998, Halliburton turned at least $89 million in uncollected bills into revenue; by 2001, the figure had grown to $234 million...
...lawyer for the board said directors were "misled" and that the report is "very unfair," but it will be welcome news to shareholders seeking billions of dollars in compensation from Enron; they could get a legal boost from the 60-page document. The bipartisan study also raises the likelihood that onetime Enron board members will come under renewed pressure to resign directorships at other major corporations like Lockheed Martin and Qualcomm. Wendy Gramm has already stepped down from several of her board assignments, but her husband Phil is leading the G.O.P. bid to block legislation due before the Senate this...
...likelihood is that people will have eaten already at another local restaurant,”Moore said, explaining the premise behind the restaurant. “It’s the sort of thing that happens in the North End. People want to extend their evening, or to take a walk before dessert...