New York, Apr 20 : C. I. A. officers used the waterboarding, the near-drowning technique, against 9/11 planner Khalid Shaikh Mohammed 183 times, according to a 2005 Justice Department legal memorandum.
A CIA memo quoting Inspector General, says that intelligence officers used the waterboard at least 83 times during August 2002 against Abu Zubaydah.
New York, April 20 : revealed how he recently played top pooper-scooper after taking the former First Dog, Barney, for a walk.
At the Boao Forum for Asia, a gathering for government, business and academic leaders, the ex- President of United Stated cracked jokes about his changed role and revealed he had even carried plastic bags to pack the terrier''s dropping.
"I was picking up what I had been dodging for eight years," the New York Daily News quoted him as saying.
New York, Apr 19 : A new biography of Paul Newman describes the Oscar-winner as a hot-headed alcoholic and a womaniser- a side of his personality not many are aware of.
Shawn Levy''s `Paul Newman: A Life', has revealed that Newman once used to wear a bottle opener on a chain around his neck, and gulped down "beer after beer after beer, a case or more a day," and then went on to have the hard stuff, usually scotch.
New York, Apr 19 : Nicolle Wallace, the campaign adviser of Sarah Palin, is through with politics.
Wallace, who was blamed for Palin's notorious 150,000-dollar clothes-shopping spree, told Marie Claire: "My professional life will never involve working on a campaign again."
Instead, the 37-year-old said she''s pursuing her "life''s ambition" with her Republican lawyer hubby, Mark Wallace, of starting a family - with the help of in vitro fertilization treatments, reports The New York Post.
New York, Apr 19 : After British singing sensation Susan Boyle won hearts on `Britain's Got talent', people are wondering if she should go in for an image makeover or remain the way she is.
In a recent interview with CNN, Boyle said that she is overwhelmed by her sudden fame.
"I''m gobsmacked, absolutely gobsmacked," The New York Daily News quoted her as saying.
Boyle said that she wouldn''t want the instant fame to change her, despite her appearance has been described as "dowdy" on the show.
New York, Apr 19 : Tom Wolfe''s 1968 classic "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" is being turned into a film.
The movie version of the book, which chronicles writer Ken Kesey''s LSD-dropping band of hippies known as the Merry Pranksters, is being done by American film director Gus Van Sant, reports The New York Post.
Rolling Stone reports that Van Sant, the Oscar-nominated director of "Milk," originally pictured Heath Ledger in the role of Kesey.
New York, Apr 20 : C. I. A. officers used the waterboarding, the near-drowning technique, against 9/11 planner Khalid Shaikh Mohammed 183 times, according to a 2005 Justice Department legal memorandum.
New York, April 20 : revealed how he recently played top pooper-scooper after taking the former First Dog, Barney, for a walk.
New York, Apr 19 : A new biography of Paul Newman describes the Oscar-winner as a hot-headed alcoholic and a womaniser- a side of his personality not many are aware of.
New York, Apr 19 : Nicolle Wallace, the campaign adviser of Sarah Palin, is through with politics.
New York, Apr 19 : After British singing sensation Susan Boyle won hearts on `Britain's Got talent', people are wondering if she should go in for an image makeover or remain the way she is.
New York, Apr 19 : Tom Wolfe''s 1968 classic "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" is being turned into a film.
