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Emperor Nero fiddled while Rome burned, according to tales of ancient history. So did Katie Couric, sort of. She played badminton in New York while other news anchors were in Baghdad to cover the opening day of Saddam Hussein's trial. Couric was recently plucked from NBC's Today show to read the evening news on competing CBS. I wish her good luck; she's certainly going to need it. Couric's new job probably saves NBC the possibility of letting her go when her contract expires next month; 15 years is a longtime for a TV personality to stay in one place. CBS...

"This has become a platform for Saddam to show himself as a caged lion when really he was a mouse in a hole," said Vice President Ghazi Yawar. "I don't know who is the genius who is producing this farce. It's a political process. It's a comedy show." In Charles Krauthammer’s column today, he assails the stupidity of allowing Saddam Hussein, in his trial for crimes against his country, to turn the tables in the reporting of this trial away from the crimes of Saddam Hussein, to the illegitimacy of the prosecutors and the court itself.Framing the above quote of...

AMMAN, Jordan -- A team of lawyers claiming to represent Saddam Hussein on Saturday postponed a visit to Baghdad, hours after saying its representative would defy death threats to meet with the deposed Iraqi dictator. Mohammed Rashdan, who heads a defense team appointed by Saddam's wife, Sajida, said lawyer Ziad Najdawi's trip to Baghdad, originally scheduled for Sunday, "was postponed for a little while because of technical reasons." Rashdan said the defense team canceled Najdawi's trip after learning of new issues concerning the Iraqi court it wanted to examine before sending the envoy. He declined to elaborate, but told The...