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...file before I comment." Since leaving Fiji, sacked Police Commissioner Hughes, an Australian, has said one reason for the coup was self-preservation on Bainimarama's part. "He's been resistant to the investigation into the murder of the Counter-Revolutionary Warfare soldiers in 2000," Hughes told ABC News. "We believe he has some questions to answer in that regard himself." Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer shares Hughes' view. "I think, in particular, Commodore Bainimarama is deeply concerned about investigations by the police into the Fiji military itself," he told ABC Radio...
...Wednesday Qarase's defiance was over. Slipping out of his house at 5 a.m., the deposed prime minister was flown to his home island of Vanua Balavu Island, about 175 miles away. A few hours later he told Australian ABC radio that Fijians would stage protests: "We want to live under the rule of law, and we are fed up with illegal takeovers in our country." After dissolving Parliament, however, Bainimarama told reporters: "Qarase and his cronies are not coming back." Bainimarama added: "Should we be pushed to use force, let me state that we will do so very quickly...
...parents. Nearly every news outlet including TIME has dug up some slob to represent this trend: a college grad couch potato who plays Grand Theft Auto all day, refusing to take a low-paying starter job or move out into the real world. Last week both USA Today and ABC's World News Tonight piled on the ridicule, thanks to yet another book on quarterlifers in a quagmire...
...didn't want to fall back on the baby-switch story again." JULIE HANAN CARRUTHERS, executive producer of the ABC soap opera All My Children, explaining the decision to introduce the first pre-surgical transgendered character on daytime...
...prime-time TV characters are more American than Betty Suarez. On ABC's hit comedy-soap Ugly Betty, she's a fashion-magazine assistant who is distinctly unfashionable--chunky sweaters, frizzy hair, bear-trap braces--but succeeds through good old Yankee values like perseverance, optimism and hard work. Smart and sweet-hearted, she embodies the Puritan-Shaker-Quaker principle of valuing inner good over outer appearance. She's as Norman Rockwell as a chestnut-stuffed turkey. The actress who plays her is even named America Ferrera...