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...Then there's Burton himself. He continues to pursue the matter of Clinton's 11th-hour pardons, and maybe he should - even though there's a serious grand jury probe already being run out of the U.S. Attorney's office in New York. But last Friday he called a hearing on a nine-year-old Florida case involving a former local official who says he was abused by investigators working for Janet Reno, then the chief prosecutor of Miami-Dade County. The alleged victim fled to Australia after being cited for contempt of court, maybe because his car theft report...
...freedom to call Blair too cheap. Hague has thus been forced to play to his base, focusing on such right-wing populist issues as detaining all asylum seekers and, especially, keeping Britain out of Europe's single currency. Two-thirds of voters back him on that, but it ranks 11th on a list of issues they consider most important...
...issues they rate most important - health, crime, education, the economy - voters decisively back Labour. And while they slightly prefer Hague's determination to keep out of the euro, which he has been stressing, over Blair's "wait and see" approach (27% to 26%), this issue ranks a mere 11th in importance. Funeral pyres of diseased livestock may be spewing smoke over the countryside, some of Blair's ministers may have resigned in disgrace, the Millennium Dome may be a universal symbol of grandiose incompetence - but Sue Heppel, a shop assistant who watched Hague campaign in Portsmouth, sums up the dominant...
...This year's Dartmouth Carnival was an example of the Crimson's resilience. Harvard finished 11th out of 12 teams in the tournament, and the lone team it outscored, Bishop University, only entered competitors in men's slalom team. But the individual times registered by the Crimson were better than last year. McLoon turned in a solid 12th and 14th place finishes in her two races, but the skiiers' overall times were improvements over the previous season's Dartmouth finishes...
...been a bad week for McVeigh; Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Richard Matsch refused to delay the execution date for the convicted Oklahoma City bomber, ruling that McVeigh should die on Monday, June 11th for his role in the 1995 explosion that killed 168 people...