Liberty Alliance names first director, new members
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The Liberty Alliance Project, a global consortium aimed at developing and promoting standards for managing user identities on networks, now has its first executive director: Silicon Valley IT consultant Donal O'Shea.
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Last week, the chairman of Liberty Media, John C. Malone, said he might increase Liberty's voting interest in the News Corporation.
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The Christian Science Board of Directors has elected a new chairman and a new director.
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The organization asked new Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales Tuesday to appoint a special counsel to probe the mistreatment of detainees in the war on terrorism, citing what it claimed was Gonzales's "unavoidable conflict of interest in fully investigating and prosecuting wrongdoing by civilians in this matter."
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - Venezuela appointed anational counter-terrorism coordinator on Wednesday in a movethat followed U.S. criticism that President Hugo Chavez'sgovernment was not doing enough to fight the global threat.
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Algeria's largest Islamic rebel group with ties to al Qaeda said it has appointed a new chief, known as an explosives expert, as it tries to regroup following the loss of key leaders in recent gun battles with authorities.
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Injectable products maker American Pharmaceutical Partners Inc. said Thursday that it named Alan L. Heller as president and chief executive officer, effective immediately, and expects to appoint him as a director at the company&#39;s next annual meeting.
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The new Palestinian leadership that takes over after the death of Yasser Arafat must renounce terrorism and work to unite the Palestinian people, US Secretary of State Colin Powell said.
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The American Civil Liberties Union joined with dozens of activist groups Thursday in demanding information about federal counterterrorism surveillance efforts.
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In Hollywood, long considered an encampment of liberal-minded showbiz sinners, God has found an ally in director Tom Shadyac, whose big-budget comedy "Evan Almighty" debuts in movie theaters on Friday.
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PARK CITY, Utah  - The head of the Motion Picture Association of America said on Saturday a recent labor contract between major studios and film and TV directors offers a template for deals with striking writers and other guilds.
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The Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium (NCOIC) formally introduced itself this week at a Tuesday (Sept. 28) press conference in Washington, DC The new group, consisting initially of 28 companies
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An evangelical minister was appointed on Wednesday to head a new initiative against violent gangs in Los Angeles, which has been dubbed the gang capital of America.
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New York's attorney general on  Thursday named a legislative leader for a nonpartisan  public-interest group to create an Internet database to track  links between elected officials and lobbyists and campaign  donors.
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The head of the state chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union said Friday that two Nebraska state troopers tried to intimidate him after he screened a documentary film critical of the federal Patriot Act.
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After months of flirting, IBM Corp has finally joined the industry-backed Liberty Alliance Project, potentially speeding interoperability between two rival sets of Web services specifications for federated identity.
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GAZA CITY, NOVEMBER 16: The new chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organisation, Mahmoud Abbas, met here last night with militant leaders as he began trying to solve the intricate political puzzle that Yasser Arafat left at his death.