Early warning: Columbus Iselin, former director of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (seen in background), examined how global warming could change ocean currents, which in turn could accelerate the warming trend.
In an interview, Jafari said he was committed to ridding the government of anyone who profited as a Baath official or carried out the oppressive policies of a party that he said "committed crimes against the Iraqis more than what Hitler or Mussolini did". Interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi has urged restraint in purging former Baathists, warning of potential unrest.
These reports, if true, would explain why the Taliban's supreme leader, Mullah Muhammad Omar, has directed several of his diatribes in recent days against the 86-year-old former king, warning him to live out his life in exile in Rome, where he has lived since 1973.
The moves coincided with an article in Progress magazine by 12 MPs, including Patricia Hewitt, the former cabinet minister, warning that the Government was suffering "malaise" under Mr Brown.
And, at the exact moment Kean and his fellow former commissioners were warning about a distracted government, President Bush was at a White House holiday reception for children.
Opposition leaders said the law opened the way for a witch-hunt against former communists, however, warning that thousands of careers could be ruined on the strength of evidence found in secret police archives that are flawed and incomplete.
The military government of the former Burma gave warning that it planned a large-scale offensive against ethnic Shan rebels who have been fighting a separatist war in the jungles for half a century.
Several remain-backing Conservatives also expressed their concerns about the government's plans for Brexit during the two-day debate, with former chancellor George Osborne warning that May had decided not to make the economy the first priority as she opens negotiations.
Some of Mr. Thompson's supporters criticized his campaign for not seizing on a blunt and, to some, racially incendiary comment by former Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani warning that the city could become a more dangerous place again if Mr. Bloomberg were not re-elected.
Unlike the consumer bureau, the department is not publicly warning former, current or potential new students about its concerns regarding Corinthian's schools.
