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...AFGHANISTAN Bright Start The interim administration of Hamid Karzai moved a step closer to fully representative government with the naming of a 21-person commission to oversee the political process. The U.N.-appointed commission, announced during the first visit in 40 years by a U.N. Secretary-General, will convene a council of tribal elders to appoint a two-year transitional government. Donor countries linked pledges of more than $5 billion in international aid to democratic controls. But security remained a key issue as U.S. forces near Kandahar killed 15 Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters in the fiercest clashes...
...raises questions about his repeated promise to unite Democrats and Republicans. Anti-abortion activists hope that he will go even further by putting new restrictions on RU-486, the abortion pill authorized last year by the Food and Drug Administration. Their ultimate goal is for Bush to appoint new Supreme Court Justices who will overturn Roe v. Wade...
...Paris (see tribute). RETIRED. GEORGE CAREY, 66, from the position of Archbishop of Canterbury; in Canterbury, England. During 11 turbulent years helming the world's 70 million Anglicans, Carey dealt with such divisive issues as female priests and the church's bad financial investments. Prime Minister Tony Blair will appoint the 104th Archbishop by October. DIVORCED. MICHAEL JORDAN, 38, from Juanita, his spouse of 12 years, due to "irreconcilable differences"; in Chicago. The couple, who met in a windy-city restaurant during Jordan's second season with the Chicago Bulls, have three children...
...court reserved the right to appoint a "shadow counsel" despite Leong's efforts to decline representation...
When President-elect George W. Bush announced his intention to appoint former Harvard assistant professor Lawrence B. Lindsey as assistant to the president for economic policy, it coincided with the former Texas Governor's public declaration that the country should prepare for a potential economic slump...