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...opposition's success in securing a majority in the new parliament. George Hawi, a former secretary-general of the Communist Party and a critic of Syria's domination of Lebanon, died when a bomb exploded beneath his Mercedes in a busy Beirut street. Hawi was the second anti-Syrian activist to die in June, and many in Lebanon blame the murders on Syria and its allies in the Lebanese intelligence services, though Syria denies involvement. Rising tensions seem unlikely to abate unless Emile Lahoud, the pro-Syrian President, resigns, but he refuses to do so and the opposition bloc...
Tomlinson, 60, a former Reader's Digest editor with a soft Appalachian drawl, tells TIME he had hoped to bring quiet change. "I worked for a year and a half inside the system to rectify" the bias issue, he says. Yet his moves--hiring a G.O.P. activist to monitor the political balance of the news show Now with Bill Moyers, bringing in CPB ombudsmen to police bias, shepherding the conservative Journal Editorial Report onto air--rankled some within and outside public broadcasting. John Lawson, president of the Association of Public Television Stations, says the problem...
...MLAMBO-NGCUKA, 49, Deputy President of South Africa; by President Thabo Mbeki; in Johannesburg. The former Minerals and Energy Minister, Mlambo-Ngcuka succeeds Jacob Zuma, who was dismissed earlier this month amid a corruption scandal involving his financial advisor. As a top government official, Mlambo-Ngcuka, an anti-apartheid activist, promoted black ownership in the white-dominated mining industry. She now assumes the highest political office ever held by a woman in South Africa...
...found his way to France. "Somewhere along the line," he recalls, "I lost the sense of Jewish identity. My family's history, my people's history receded. I was preoccupied with my own life, my own affairs." He became a successful painter, an occasional novelist and human rights activist. "But some time after the death of my father," the author admits, "I realized that I had not truly known him, or his tradition." Halter began to sift through the evidence of World War II, then ransacked ancient volumes, diaries and letters, scouring Europe and the Middle East in a frantic...
Scranton paints Casey as an agent of the status quo, a believer in old, failed Democratic programs. "I think there is an appetite out there for an activist, for a progressive," says the young Republican. "The problem with the Democrats is that their activism is 20 years out of date." But with the drug war emerging as an issue this year, Scranton has been hurt in recent weeks by his record of using "recreational drugs" like marijuana back in his counterculture days. Scranton's early twelve-point lead has vanished, and Bob Casey may just overcome his patrician townsman. MICHIGAN...