David Petraeus, 60, who resigned as CIA director after acknowledging an extramarital affair with his biographer, will take a position with investment firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. L.P. to run a new unit for public policy, economic research and emerging-market due diligence.
Iryna Krechkovsky, an Irvine, Calif., concert violinist, will be using for three years a $5 million, 324-yearold Stradivarius on loan from the Canada Council for the Arts.
Harold Mendenhall, 84, of Riviera Beach, Fla., who has been credited with donating 100 gallons of blood since July 7, 1977, though OneBlood, the blood bank where Mendenhall donates, concedes that he didn’t actually donate 100 gallons of blood, but platelets, a blood product.
Tyler Schaefer, a 10-yearold Cub Scout, found $10,000 in a drawer at a Kansas City, Mo., hotel where he was staying with his dad, Cody Schaefer, a truck driver and mechanic from Rapid City, S.D., and turned the money over to police.
Sami Samir Hassoun, a 25-year-old Lebanese immigrant, one-time Chicago baker and candy-store worker, was sentenced to 23 years in prison for placing a backpack he believed contained a bomb along a bustling street near the Chicago Cubs’ baseball stadium.
Natan Blanc, 20, an Israeli conscript who has spent the past six months in military prison for refusing to serve in the army because of his opposition to the occupation of the West Bank, will be released after the Israeli military decided he was unfit for service.
Marian Price, 59, an Irish Republican Army veteran who originally received a life sentence for participating in the Provisional IRA’s first car-bomb attacks on London in 1973, was paroled by Britain because she is ill with a range of mental and physical problems.
Christof Heyns, the U.N. special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, called in Geneva for a global moratorium on the testing, production and use of armed robots that can select and kill targets without human command.
Bobby Jindal, the Republican governor of Louisiana, signed into law a bill that allows Louisiana motorists to add the words “I’m a Cajun” to their driver’s licenses for a $5 annual fee starting Jan. 1, a move designed to drum up money for the Council for the Development of French in Louisiana to pay for scholarships.
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