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Beijing has tried to soften its image by inviting the few Chinese citizens' groups based in the capital to participate in Games planning, especially on environmental issues. Is it all for show? Li Hao, an environmental activist, urges the city not to pave the beds of urban waterways in the Olympic runup. "I'm glad for the chance to speak," she says, "but I haven't seen a single person take my advice seriously." The next few months may give some indication of whether the promise of a New Beijing is real or as fake as the carnations lining...
Clinton pleads bewilderment over it all. If he were trading pardons for money, he asks his friends, wouldn't he have helped out his DreamWorks buddies, who were pleading on behalf of jailed Native American activist Leonard Peltier? "David Geffen will barely talk to me!" he says. His clumsy reactions reveal how heavily he relied upon his palace guards. All that's left of the Clinton spin machine is a succession of temporary press secretaries and an ad hoc group of advisers. He is no longer able to change the subject with a merry economic report or poll-tested Executive...
DIED. KHALID ABDUL MUHAMMAD, 53, former Nation of Islam activist and personal assistant to Louis Farrakhan; reportedly from a brain hemorrhage; in Marietta, Ga. Farrakhan dismissed Muhammad in 1993 after the latter insulted Catholics, whites and gays, calling Jews "bloodsuckers" and the Pope "a no-good cracker." As front man for the New Black Panthers in 1998, he led the contentious "Million Youth March" in New York City...
...DIED. FUKI KUSHIDA, 101, peace activist and pioneer of the Japanese women's liberation movement; in Tokyo. The soft-spoken community leader, widowed at 35, worked as a magazine reporter and insurance agent to support her two children. A founding member of the post-war Federation of Japanese Women's Organizations, which today has almost 1 million members, Kushida lobbied for gender equality and the elimination of nuclear weapons. Protesting militarism to the end, wheelchair-bound Kushida led a 2,000-person march in Tokyo in February 1999, the month she turned...
...wasn't what Barak's advisers thought he should do, but the political brawl that has begun behind the scenes in Labor suggests he might be smart to let his rivals duke it out. Knesset speaker Avraham Burg, a former Peace Now activist, is the front runner to take over. But old campaigner Shimon Peres is fighting for the job and has already signaled that he's in favor of a national-unity government. At least four others have declared they will try for the job. By week's end, Barak was still controlling coalition negotiations with Sharon and being...