The BBC Trust was set up in 2007 to replace the board of governors, which had become caught up in a row over reporting of the Iraq war and was perceived as being too close to the corporation.

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Mr Woolsey, who backed the Iraq war, is on the advisory board of the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security, which argues for subsidies to make cars more fuel-efficient and for plant-based alternatives to petrol.

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She even has an Amelia Earhart-like snapshot of her aunt, a World War II pilot, posted on her bulletin board.

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Meier said there are many concepts that work really well in a computer game, like fog of war -- not being able to see all the pieces on the board until your units are within range of enemy units.

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Instead, he lured his company into a bidding war and forced the board to make a rash decision about retention in the name of corporate competition.

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But when the United States War Refugee Board approached him about traveling to Budapest to try and save the largest remaining concentration of Jews in Europe, Wallenberg answered that call.

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Although the Canadian refugee board found Mr Key credible, it rejected his application, saying that unless his claims of abuse constituted a war crime, they did not justify his desertion from the US army.

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