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Fact of the Week

**Fact of the Week**
George H. W. Bush, the president's father and a former president himself, pocketed more than $4.5 million by selling Global Crossing stock in 1999 and 2000, before it went bankrupt. He bought at least some of the stock before the company went public, and sold some just weeks before company's stock fell through the floor. How convenient. Source: Business Week, 22 February 2002.

Murdoch Firm Tried to Kill Satire on Bush: HarperCollins delayed Michael Moore's new book by three months and threatened to pulp 50,000 copies (David Usborne, The Independent).
No Vacation for Paying Taxes: It is wrong for American corporations to expatriate themselves for tax reasons (Austin American-Statesman).
A Stealth Attack on Freedom of the Press: The FCC may eliminate all restrictions on media ownership (Robert McChesney and Mark Crispin Miller, The Nation).
Terms of Abuse: To win over the pro-Isreali lobby, the left needs to take anti-Semitism seriously (Gary Younge, The Guardian).
Geneva Conventions are Outdated, Says U. S. Envoy: Pierre-Richard Prosper believes that the Geneva Conventions need overhauls (Kim Sengupta, The Independent).
Pentagon is Arming With Words: The Pentagon plans to lie to the foreign media (James Dao and Eric Schmitt, New York Times via International Herald-Tribune).
U. S. Drops Pledge on Nukes: The Bush administration is abrogating a 24-year-old pledge not to use nuclear weapons against non-nuclear states (Nicholas Kralev, Washington Times).

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