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...said that he intends to rely solely on the vice president for government, community, and public affairs, Alan J. Stone, for media relations. But Longbrake will continue to serve Mass. Hall in its dealings with the press, according to Stone...
...world. The owner, Chandrakant Sanghavi, told me he moves more than 10 million diamonds out of his plant every year. Diamonds were the revolution India needed, he said. They were bringing jobs and housing to people who had nothing before. In less than a decade of wild growth, the stones had affected the household economies of 10 million people in the state of Gujarat-meaning that person, or somebody in his or her family, had a job polishing diamonds 12 hours a day at 10? a stone. This was a mass of people equivalent to the population of Los Angeles...
...provided the jawless head to the U.S. military. The skull, Suskind reports, still had a bit of skin attached to its crown when the container finally was opened inside a room at Dulles, and its forehead had an indentation, consistent with a lifetime of pressing one's head against stone or dirt to highlight one's commitment to Allah. "If it turns out to be Zawahiri's head, I hope you'll bring it here," Bush told his briefers - "half in jest," Suskind writes. But DNA testing ultimately revealed the skull wasn't Zawahiri's. It was shipped...
...Normally, right after the candle-lighting, there would be a march around the property. "But last night there was an Aztec ceremony for 24 hours," Hannah explains to me, "so we're not doing a march." You can't take blood from a stone, people...
...Rove's lawyer, Robert Luskin, tells TIME that the prolonged inquiry reflected Fitzgerald's legendary thoroughness. "I think he wanted to have some level of confidence that he had not only turned over every stone, he'd turned over every pebble," Luskin said. "Karl is obviously relieved. He felt, and I certainly believe quite correctly, that he'd done his very best to cooperate as best he could, right from the beginning. This has taken an enormous toll on him and his family, to be in the center of something like this and to have these things said about...