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Correspondence from disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff is made public today that President Bush met him "almost a dozen" times, disputing White House claims Bush did not know the man. "The guy saw me in almost a dozen settings, and joked with me about a bunch of things, including details of my kids. ... |
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According to a letter from special Prosecutor Fitzgerald to I. Scooter Libby's lawyers, "Mr. Libby testified (to the grand jury) that he was authorized to disclose (classified) information ... to the press by his superiors." I. Scooter Libby was Chief of Staff to Vice President Dick Cheney. |
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Carly Fiorina, previously one of America's most powerful businesswomen, resigns her post as CEO of Hewlett-Packard following a dispute with the company's board of directors over future strategy and the firm's profitability. Ms Fiorina pushed through a controversial merger with rival Compaq in 2002 ... |
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Kate Peyton, 39, an Africa producer for the British Broacasting Corporation, is shot by a militiaman outside the Sahafi Hotel in the capital city of Mogadishu. Peyton dies at the hospital of internal bleeding. Somalia has lacked a central government since warlords deposed Dictator Mohamed Siad Bar ... |
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A car bomb atrributed to the Basque separatist group, ETA, explodes in a Madrid office park injuring at least 43 people in the worst terrorist attack in the Spanish capital since Al Qaeda's 2004 bombing of commuter trains. |
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Masked insurgents kill Al-Hurra television correspondent Abdul Hussein Khazaal and his 3-year-old son in Basra's al-Maaqal neighborhood. The United States finances Al-Hurra, an Arab-language TV channel, which translated means "The Free." Muslim clerics have denounced the channel as propaganda. |
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Col. Riyadh Gatte Elawi, of the Iraqi Interior Ministry, is abducted while leaving his house for work in the al-Dora neighborhood of Baghdad, |
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Because extending industry leadership in 2004 requires focusing company resources on the critical business initiatives, AMR Research identifies and aids companies with the key business and technology opportunities for each industry. |
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Journalists in Gaza stage strike to protest attacks on reporters in Palestinian territories |
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Bodies are uncovered on the property of the Tri-State Crematorium in Walker County, North Georgia. |
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Britain's Princess Margaret dies in her sleep at age 71. |
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The USS Greeneville, a nuclear powered submarine, surfaces underneath the Japanese fishing boat killing 9 crew and passengers. |
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Adolf Galland dies of a heart ailment in Oberwinter, Germany, |
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After five months of fighting and over 25,000 deaths, Japanese forces on Guadlcanal abandon the island. |
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All Japanese resistance on the island of Guadlcanal comes to an end. |
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The U.S. lengthens the minimum work week from 40 to 48 hours during World War II. |
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8000 Japanese troops land in Korea to begin a march to Seoul. |
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Hearst's New York Journal publishes a letter from the Spanish Ambassador to the United States in which President McKinley is characterized as feeble-minded. |
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John Adams is elected president of the United States and Thomas Jefferson is named Vice President. |
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