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General Augusto Pinochet looks set to regain his freedom, but not necessarily his dignity. Britain's Home Secretary Jack Straw announced Tuesday that a panel of doctors had found the 84-year-old former Chilean dictator medically unfit to stand trial, which leaves Britain inclined to end extradition proceedings and send Pinochet home. Straw has given Spain, which wants to extradite the general to stand trial on charges of torture arising out of the deaths of some of the 3,000 political opponents slain during his 16-year reign, until Tuesday to persuade him otherwise, but has made clear that...
...aerospace agency, where a spate of recent high-profile (and high-priced) gaffes has led to declining confidence, with many saying the agency's cost- and time-cutting measures have led to negligence. In fact, the Polar Lander mission was billed as a chance for the agency to regain public favor, and NASA even arranged a live Internet broadcast to deliver the first sound recordings of the Red Planet. But web surfers waited and waited and the signal never came...
...Crimson is going to have any fun over the break, it better regain its focus and put on the game face for its Dec. 29 game at New Hampshire...
Minus Dan Clemente, the Harvard men's basketball team has been trying to regain early season success...
...Robert G. Miller's job to rebuild it. Named Rite Aid chairman and CEO last week, Miller, 55, comes from the No. 2 job at Kroger, the nation's grocery powerhouse. To heal the drugstore giant, he'll have to regain confidence on Main Street and Wall Street: Rite Aid has been the biggest loser in the S&P 500 this year, with an 80% drop in its shares since January...