Ottawa refused to say if the Canadian passport used was a fraudulently obtained document.

Posted by at January 16, 2002 08:59 PM

A mid-level diplomat at the time, Knyazev, 46, was driving in Ottawa on Jan. 27, 2001, when his car hit the two women as they walked on the sidewalk.

The incident created an uproar over diplomatic immunity, which increased in intensity with revelations Knyazev had been accused of driving drunk before.

Posted by at January 16, 2002 03:11 PM

Prime Minister Jean Chrtien°Øs biggest-ever cabinet shuffle promotes the able, rewards the loyal and punishes those who haven°Øt measured up. Thus, Foreign Affairs Minister (and prime ministerial hopeful) John Manley becomes deputy prime minister and minister of infrastructure and Crown corporations, while former Public Works Minister Alfonso Gagliano, dogged by controversy, becomes ambassador to Denmark.

Being posted to Denmark is punishment? He's still got a fucking job, unlike 8% of the rest of Canada, the prick!

Posted by at January 16, 2002 03:07 PM

We, the undersigned, demand a Special Prosecutor to investigate all of the crimes that preceeded the collapse of Enron, and the possible involvement of the Bush administration in those crimes.

Posted by at January 16, 2002 11:19 AM

If a dozen years ago you had asked an ecologist uninterested in politics to name the countries with the most fragile environments, the most urgent public health problems and the most severe overpopulation (measured against available resources), the answer would have included Afghanistan, Burundi, Haiti, Iraq, Nepal, Rwanda, Somalia, Yugoslavia and Zimbabwe. The close match between that list and the list of the world's political hot spots today is no accident. In contrast, countries with well-maintained environments and modest populations, such as Belize, Bhutan and Norway, are no danger to us.

Posted by at January 16, 2002 11:18 AM

The kickoff at the Montreal courthouse attracted few spectators to watch Boucher, 48, relaxed and smiling, walk shackled into the prisoner's box. Wearing a black turtleneck and tan pants, he scanned the room for familiar faces.
He found none until a young Hells supporter showed up with his head shaved. On one side of his head was a Harley-Davidson tattoo while the back of his skull had "Kill the Rock Machine" stenciled in crude jailhouse writing (the Rock Machine, a rival gang, has been absorbed into the Bandidos, another biker gang). The top of his head contained a racist skinhead sign.

Posted by at January 16, 2002 10:55 AM

Andersen has said its Houston auditors started deleting Enron e-mails on Oct. 23 and stopped Nov. 9. Bedser said his firm has been able to recover Lotus Notes e-mail messages that were deleted up to eight months earlier. Andersen used Lotus Notes.

Posted by at January 16, 2002 10:49 AM

How can I get personal belongings still at the office?

Please call 713-345-7624 and leave the following information: your name, the business unit you worked for, floor you worked on, and a contact number. Someone will call you within the next day or so to arrange a time for you to come to the office to get your personal belongings.

Posted by at January 16, 2002 10:40 AM

Foss is a member of a three-party coalition government led by Lutheran clergyman Kjell Magne Bondevik of the Christian Democratic party, which opposes gay marriage. Foss, however, was openly gay when he joined the party, and it has not infringed on his political career.

Posted by at January 16, 2002 10:29 AM

"If Mr Pasko launches an appeal for a pardon, it will be looked into," Putin said at a joint press conference in Paris with French President Jacques Chirac.

However, the journalist made clear that he is not keen on requesting a pardon, which he has earlier would indirectly be an admission of guilt.

Posted by at January 16, 2002 10:14 AM

Wiley's disappearance had raised concerns about a possible terrorist connection because he had done research on a number of potentially deadly viruses, including Ebola, a highly contagious and lethal fever.

Posted by at January 16, 2002 10:08 AM

Along with other top Enron officials, Lay's problem--both as an executive and as a possible criminal defendant--wasn't that he lacked information; it was that he denied it to others. The "warning" about the partnerships was likely met with a shrug: Tell me something I don't know.

Posted by at January 16, 2002 10:05 AM

The fired partner, David B. Duncan, called a meeting of auditors at the firm's Houston office and ordered "an expedited effort to destroy documents" on Oct. 23, the day after Enron disclosed that the S.E.C. had begun its inquiry, the firm said. The destruction apparently did not end until Mr. Duncan's assistant sent an e-mail message to other secretaries on Nov. 9 that said "stop the shredding," the firm said. Andersen had received a subpoena from the S.E.C. the day before.

Posted by at January 16, 2002 10:01 AM

"Youth is not absolution for treachery, and personal self-discovery is not an excuse to take up arms against one's country. Misdirected Americans cannot seek direction in murderous ideologies and expect to avoid the consequences," Ashcroft said.

Posted by at January 16, 2002 09:59 AM

Among the largest Enron shareholders, according the personal financial disclosure forms, are senior adviser to the President Karl Rove and Undersecretary of State Charlotte Beers, who each held between $100,001 and $250,000 of stock when their forms were filed. Others include Zoellick and Undersecretary of Commerce Grant Aldonas, who each owned between $15,001 and $50,000 of stock when they were nominated.

Posted by at January 16, 2002 09:40 AM

This is that rare thing, an encyclopaedia you want to go on reading. Some entries are terse and functional, but most celebrate the intimacy between physiology and achievement. Hygeia was the goddess of healthy living and hygiene has a powerful role in the battle against disease; but it didn't take 20th-century savants long to get to less healthy ideas of racial hygiene, or start worrying about sexual hygiene. Here you go straight from sexual hygiene to hymen, with the additional information that the Virgin Mary's unbroken hymen was likened by medieval thinkers to "a pane of glass that the sun passed through without piercing". The stuff that follows on hyperbaric chambers is almost as gripping, and there are entries on physical actions such as gasp and gaze so neatly put as to provoke a deep, near maximal inspiration through an open mouth, followed by a wide-eyed stare.

Posted by at January 16, 2002 08:43 AM

The Trash Compactor Debate turns on whether the Death Star ejects its trash into space. I, for one, believe it does. Though we never see the Death Star ejecting its trash, we do see another Empire ship, the so-called Star Destroyer, ejecting its trash into space. I therefore see no reason to suspect that Empire protocol dictating that trash be ejected into space would not apply equally to all Empire spacecraft, including the Death Star.

Posted by at January 16, 2002 08:21 AM

Think newspaper. In the roll-to-roll system, amorphous (non-crystalline) silicon transistors are deposited in precise patterns onto a continuously unwinding ribbon of plastic as it rolls through a vacuum chamber. The final cost of four to eight cents per square centimeter is "vastly lower" than that of crystalline silicon wafers, says Sheats, making it affordable to space transistors as far apart as the pixels in a display.

Posted by at January 16, 2002 08:17 AM

Under general damages, Corbin is seeking $20,000 for pain and suffering, $5,000 for embarrassment, humiliation and emotional distress, $85 for damaged clothing and $9.50 for the salve and hot chocolate.

Posted by at January 16, 2002 08:00 AM

...Mr. Krause said New Year's Eve passed "smoothly and quietly." Six hundred frozen McCain mini-pizzas had been warmed up and distributed as promised to prisoners after their 10:30 p.m. lockup. But by the next day, rumours had begun circulating that while the medium-security male offenders were in their cells munching their 50-cent pizzas (taken out of their food allowance), they were also treated to a pornographic broadcast through the institution's internal cable system.

Posted by at January 16, 2002 07:52 AM

Garlic industry attorney Mike Coursey said imports from Thailand suspiciously shot up last year, and that domestic garlic producers estimate between 4.5 and 6.8 million kilos of Chinese garlic leaked into the United States illegally.

Posted by at January 16, 2002 07:46 AM

A debate is heating up in the academic community over whether software that is generated by publicly funded research must be released with an open source license. The Internet is one example of how releasing research code benefited the public, but the trend seems to be changing now, and universities are more likely to consider the profit opportunity. The Bayh-Dole Act paved the way for the privatization of publicly funded resources, but not everyone is happy with the results.

Posted by at January 16, 2002 07:34 AM

MISSING-IN-ACTION: Two lower-torsos, 179 stuffed 'lips' and several metres of luminous plastic strips.

Posted by at January 16, 2002 06:56 AM

The exit of Sun Media from the [Canadian Newspaper Association] would represent a significant blow to the industry group, a defender of the interests of daily and community newspapers, particularly in government relations. Industry sources estimate about 20 per cent of the CNA's annual $2-million budget comes from Sun Media, about $400,000.

Posted by at January 16, 2002 06:46 AM

Peroch said he had not insured the collection because he believed his security was impregnable to thieves, and had not thought about fires.

Posted by at January 16, 2002 06:44 AM

When a person thinks, parts of the brain need more oxygen. Having performed fMRIs on people engaged in guilty-knowledge tests, Langleben claims to have isolated the location in the brain active during willful deception. He believes it is the anterior cingulate cortex, a part of the brain often associated with conflict. Though a subject might control supposed autonomic responses, this discovery is promising because we could pinpoint the very act of deception.

Posted by at January 16, 2002 06:31 AM

As for the pop-behind ad, being used more and more, e-Poll found that 72.4% of surfers "always close this type of ad without paying attention to it," and 40% said their opinion of advertisers that use pop-behinds is lowered, while 36% said the same about the Web sites that allow such advertising.

Posted by at January 16, 2002 06:25 AM

"In the early days [porn] may have been number one perhaps because then there was not much else to do online [....] The amount is completely over-exaggerated."

Posted by at January 16, 2002 06:23 AM

"This is the first interactive documentary. These are real people's lives and real events over which viewers are going to have some control. Nobody knows what's going to happen," said Jeremy Mills, Lion Television director. "We'll be looking at these players as people, because what goes on off the pitch affects what happens on the pitch," he added.

Posted by at January 16, 2002 06:19 AM

The suspected Ramses mummy found a home at a museum affiliated with Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. Scientists there are comparing his DNA to that of other royals to see if he really is the famed king.

Posted by at January 16, 2002 06:17 AM

If the word "diesel" brings to mind boggy performance, clattering under the hood, and the reek of kerose, fear not. These cars accelerate decently, and they don't stink or clatter. The smaller one, Volkswagen's teeny Lupo 3L TDI, is a celebrity in Europe, where its fuel consumption of just three liters per 100 highway kilometers (about 99 mpg) makes it the efficiency champ. The featherweight Lupo has a tiny three-cylinder, 1.2-liter engine, but it is nourished by a variable-output turbocharger that inhales cool, dense air from an intercooler. Combined with the latest in electronic direct fuel injection, these features coax 61 horsepower and surprising low-end torque from the little power plant. Which is enough to carry you about your daily rounds, we learned.

Posted by at January 16, 2002 06:07 AM