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...come to believe that he witnessed two modern miracles. But for Lindh, 21--raised amid the mellow comforts of California's Marin County and charged with betraying his country--another miracle came to pass last week in a northern Virginia courtroom, where defense lawyers and federal prosecutors announced a plea bargain. The deal abruptly ended the case against Lindh, who pleaded guilty to charges of aiding the Taliban and possessing explosives; in exchange, the government dropped terrorism and conspiracy charges that could have brought him three life terms plus 90 years. Federal District Judge T.S. Ellis III must approve...
...would take 57 hours of back-and-forth phone calls and faxes between defense lawyers and prosecutors, but they hammered out the details by 1:30 a.m. on July 15. Amid the contentious negotiations, his lawyers say, Lindh seemed free of worry. During talks with Hassan in the jail each week, Lindh seemed to have accepted his destiny. "No one can ever hurt me," Lindh recently told him, quoting a Muslim scholar. "If they imprison me, I can devote my time to worship. If they exile me, that is an opportunity to see new lands of God. If they kill...
...Amid that kind of background noise, neither Wall Street nor Main Street is tuning in to Bush right now. For investors big and small, "it's a matter of reconnecting the metric--company to industry to economy--that's missing today," says New York Stock Exchange (N.Y.S.E.) chairman Dick Grasso. And that may be beyond Bush's capabilities, as well as the public's expectations. The N.Y.S.E. is hurrying up new regulations to give independent directors more control of the companies in their care. And Grasso is looking past Labor Day for investors to reconnect with fundamentals, especially as third...
...colder months, Nagano prefecture--site of the 1998 Winter Olympics--offers the delightful contrast of piping-hot springs amid snow. Two hours west of Tokyo lie the vast Lake Suwa and the onsen town of Kamisuwa. At Saginoyu saginoyu.com) a historic inn, some of the grandest rooms offer private rotenburo, round cedar tubs overlooking the lake. But don't miss the communal onsen on the ground floor, where the rotenburo are shielded by tile roofs from which icicles hang in winter. In spring, cherry blossoms provide a pink feast for fatigued bathers' eyes...
...Adelphia scalps gave the Administration a chance to look as if it was taking charge amid the dreadful financial news. Through much of July, as toxic stock syndrome plunged the market to five-year lows and nudged his poll numbers to mortal levels, the President and his top economic advisers appeared helpless and sometimes befuddled. Wall Street was not impressed. As a private equities fund manager told Time, "It doesn't seem like his top priority. It doesn't seem like he understands. It doesn't seem like they have their act together." Each time Bush gave a speech promising...