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NEW YORK – Hip-hop impresario Russell Simmons (search) has joined other celebrities and activists who have criticized Kentucky Fried Chicken (search), saying he will call for a boycott if the company doesn’t reform its slaughter practices. Simmons called slaughter practices used by the fast-food chain’s suppliers “grossly inhumane” and has …

NEW YORK – The Independent Inquiry Committee into the U.N. Oil-for-Food program issued an interim report on U.N. management Thursday. Following is a transcript that began after the news conference had begun. PAUL VOLCKER: And I think they also reflect in their person the fact that this is an international …

BIOGRAPHY — Porter J. Goss was born November 26, 1938 in Waterbury, Connecticut. — He is 65 years old. — Goss is a multimillionaire. — He speaks Spanish and French. — Goss is the second CIA director to have served in Congress. The first was former President George Herbert Walker …