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...DISMISSED. Sexual assault charge against KOBE BRYANT, 26, National Basketball Association superstar; after his accuser ceased to cooperate with prosecutors; in Eagle, Colorado. The Los Angeles Lakers guard was charged with raping a 19-year-old desk clerk during a hotel stay last year. The case against him was weakened by the woman's admission that she willingly flirted with and kissed Bryant, and an unproven defense allegation that she had sex with someone else after leaving his room. Bryant released a statement in which he apologized to the woman, saying: "Although I truly believe this encounter between...
...unleashing never happened. Instead, U.S. forces began an assault and then withdrew. A senior White House official explained the reversal a week later. "We've demonstrated that we can be tough, but we need to show that we can be smart," he said. "I know that makes people anxious who want to turn Fallujah into a parking lot, but you can win the battle and lose the war." Hawkish critics immediately called the new softening a retreat. But it was only one of many examples of shifting tactics. Bush won't change his mind when the French want to avoid...
...have been killed Friday after Russian troops stormed a school to free more than 1,000 civilians, mostly women and children, held captive by a group of masked Chechen gunmen demanding that the authorities free their jailed comrades. As Russians reeled from the impact of a savage terror assault on children, President Putin on Saturday visited the scene and promised a tough response. "We showed weakness and the weak are trampled upon," he said, promising to take steps to improve the performance of his security forces and vowing to fight a long war to eliminate the perpetrators...
...that night, U.S. planes dropped bombs, gunships strafed rebel positions near the shrine, and tanks shelled militia hideaways as explosions filled the sky over the Old City with billowing smoke and a deadly orange glow. U.S. military commanders said they were merely "shaping the battlefield" in case a frontal assault was ordered. But al-Sadr is adept at divining when to back down. On Friday he promised to "turn over the keys" of the sacred shrine to representatives of Sistani, the most revered Shi'ite religious leader, who has been out of the country for weeks while receiving cardiac treatment...
...phone companies' quick response to Citron's frontal assault "is a sign that they are worried about losing customers," says John Hodulik, a telecom analyst at UBS. There's a risk of cannibalizing their existing business, but it's one they have to take. Cable companies, on the other hand, can go after an entirely new market, connecting Web phone service to existing broadband customers...