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...string of public debacles for the company, which is part of a conglomerate controlled by the family of Aburizal Bakrie, the country's influential Welfare Minister. In the past two months, Lapindo's corporate parent, PT Energi Mega Persada, has unsuccessfully attempted to unload the beleaguered mining business twice: first, to another Bakrie Group subsidiary for the princely sum of $2; then to the British Virgin Islands-based investment firm Freehold Group. The latter deal collapsed last week after a public outcry, with many Indonesians fearing that the sale might prefigure an attempt by a new owner to declare Lapindo...
...direction of the Islamic holy city of Mecca, and the Pope understood immediately that this act might not sit well with some of his diehard followers. But Benedict neither turned away nor turned cold, and simply lost himself in prayer for all to see (he actually prayed twice as long as Cagrici...
...spell, it was right after the mid-term elections, when Capitol Hill was aswarm with triumphant Democrats. He spent two weeks abroad, separated by a brief Thanksgiving interlude at Camp David. Air Force One, the Boeing 747 that has its own medical facility, among other amenities, circled the globe twice, serving Swiss burgers and taco salad, with snicker-doodles for dessert. On the ground in Amman, the White House staff did grapple with local dishes like chicken frekah and homemade knafeh. The President and First Lady Laura Bush watched a replay of the Michigan--Ohio State game onboard during...
...Simon, one of the two boys from a charity home, works as a baggage handler near Heathrow Airport. He has wed twice. The first marriage, to Yvonne, produced five children; in the second, to Vianessa, he become a foster parent. Simon's and Paul's histories suggest that they weren't schooled in ambition. "I'm very laid back," he tells Apted. "As [my wife] always says, if I go any further back I'll fall over." Paul, the second charity case, went to Australia and worked as a laborer. He married Susan, a hairdresser, and had two kids...
Eight years ago, Derek Tice walked out onto his porch and found an entire SWAT team with all their guns pointed at him. He was convicted of murder, twice, in two separate trials, and sentenced to life in prison. To many observers in Norfolk, Virginia, at the time, it had seemed like an open-and-shut case - a tape of Tice's own confession to the 1997 rape and murder of Navy newlywed Michelle Moore Bosko, 18, was played for the juries. But Tice and two other former Navy sailors convicted in the murder later insisted that they had fabricated...