Author: DXO

  • Lawyer’s Slaying Raises Questions on Hussein Trial

    By JOHN F. BURNS Published: October 22, 2005 BAGHDAD, Iraq, Saturday, Oct. 22 – The execution-style killing of a defense lawyer in the trial of Saddam Hussein and some top associates shocked Iraqi and American officials on Friday and renewed doubts about whether it is possible to hold a fair trial in the midst of…

  • Paul Harvey News & Comment

    I listen to AM radio. And if I am travelling to work at the proper time (something that can never be assured), I hear the segment called "Paul Harvey News & Comment". Now Paul Harvey is not a young person (he was born in 1918), and he has a mellifluous yet ancient-sounding boom voice. Very…

  • Idea: Brand Pantheon

    Brand Pantheon is a concept I have for a web-based application that allows users to create a visual Gartner-style Magic Quadrant custom graphic indicating the relative importance of brands in relation to the user. The user fills out a form with the various brands that they associate themselves with. User can drill down through a…

  • Saddam Hussein Goes on Trial for Crimes Against Humanity – New York Times

    By EDWARD WONG and JOHN F. BURNSPublished: October 19, 2005 BAGHDAD, Iraq, Oct. 19 – Iraqi judges and prosecutors assembled this morning in a heavily guarded compound in central Baghdad as Saddam Hussein and seven defendants prepared to face charges in a 1982 massacre, beginning the long process of public reckoning for the decades of…

  • Halloween Plaza

      Halloween Plaza    Originally uploaded by juggernautco. Here’s a look at Daley Plaza in Chicago. The fountain runs orange and there’s a haunted house in the background.