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...Senator Joe Biden wrote to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice recently, saying that, "It is our impression that many Pakistani citizens view the President's campaign against the nation's Chief Justice as an attempt to cow the judicial system into sanctioning electoral rigging and extraconstitutional delay of a return to a fully civilian government...
During the dotcom crash, few Web banks survived, but ING Direct persevered. "When we were making all those big investments without too much return, I had to answer a lot of questions," says Michel Tilmant, who chairs the executive board of parent company ING in Amsterdam. But ING was committed to Kuhlmann and the ING Direct vision and spent the money to continue...
...knows how many veterans are in a similar bind, but the numbers are substantial--and will grow as more troops return home. Complaints under the 1994 act have increased steadily, to more than 1,500 in 2006 from about 800 in 2001. Some have become lawsuits, and employers may have tried to steer many toward arbitration, since about one-fifth of U.S. companies require the procedure for workplace disputes. In defense of employers, it's not easy reserving jobs for workers called to active duty. But Congress judged that the cost was worth the peace of mind of citizen soldiers...
Hamas and Fatah may have passed the point of no return. The unprecedented viciousness of the renewed fighting between the rival Palestinian factions in Gaza makes any new cease-fire difficult to envision. Gangs have tossed enemies alive off 15-story buildings, shot one another's children and burst into hospitals to finish off wounded foes lying helplessly in bed. It is beginning to feel like civil...
...emotional BBC radio interview, Yoko Ono reveals JOHN LENNON was headed to dinner the night he died but decided to return home, where he was shot. Ono says his last words were, "Let's go home, because I want to see [son] Sean before he goes to sleep." SCORE...