Just as a planned sale of the largest private water company in the United States moves closer, potentially embarrassing records of high-level corporate meetings have surfaced detailing how the business failed to live up to expectations for the German utility giant RWE.
The resignation yesterday of Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty, the No. 2 man at the Justice Department, was as inevitable as it was ironic. It was inevitable because the rules of physics and politics say that dominoes must fall and scapegoats must go. And it was ironic because McNulty is a former congressional staff member who is seasoned in the ways of both the Justice Department and Congress.
AP - Under pressure from their rivals, the leading Republican presidential contenders defended their conservative credentials on abortion, gun control and tax cuts in a feisty debate Tuesday night.
AP - The Rev. Jerry Falwell collapsed at his campus office and died Tuesday after a career in which the evangelist used the power of television to transform the religious right into a mighty force in American politics. He was 73.
AP - Hamas gunmen riddled a Fatah police jeep with gunfire at close range Tuesday, killing eight policemen in the most ruthless round yet of factional fighting, pushing the Palestinian unity government closer to collapse.
The Rev. Jerry Falwell died of heart failure at age 73, his doctor said Tuesday. Falwell founded a movement to turn hot-button social issues into staples of American political debate. He wrote religious voters "cannot be silent about the sins that are destroying this nation," which he identified as pornography, abortion, "amoral liberals," drugs, welfare and the abandonment of biblical morality.
Embattled World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz Tuesday pleaded to the World Bank Executive Board for fairness in deciding his fate and promised changes in his management style in an effort to hold on to his job.