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Gorbachev also took a shot at the international community—and Harvard—for its mistakes in attempts to assist his country in decentralizing its economy during the Yeltsin years...
...assist from his big brother. President George W. Bush had thrown all his weight behind the Governor - making more than a dozen campaign visits and tailoring a number of White House policies, on issues like Cuba and the Florida Everglades, to help ensure Jeb will be seated in Tallahassee when the 2004 presidential race rolls around. The Bush camp had hoped to take on former U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno, whose liberal cachet might have alienated Florida's large mass of independent and centrist voters. But the more conservative McBride, 57, who once ran Florida's largest law firm, upset...
...hospitality of the tiny oil sheikdom (pop. 128,000, not counting foreign laborers) may soon extend to thousands more U.S. soldiers. The country is already host to 2,000 troops from the 379th Air Expeditionary Wing, placed there to assist the U.S. war in Afghanistan. Now, Qatari officials tell TIME, Doha and Washington are wrapping up secret negotiations that will clear the way for the U.S. Central Command, headed by General Tommy Franks and with headquarters in Tampa, Fla., to establish a key beachhead in Qatar...
Raimondi, the leading scorer for the Steelers last season, proved to the Crimson coaches her renowned ability to find the net, providing an assist against her former team in the scrimmage. Raimondi hopes that the skills she acquired as a member of the under-18 squad will translate to the college game...
...help organize his thoughts--and assist fellow investigators--Lake has assembled what may be the most comprehensive website on the anthrax case outside the FBI, anthraxinvestigation.com Though he insists that he's no G-man wannabe, Lake has sent dozens of his hypotheses to the bureau over the past year--and received some appreciative feedback in return. ("Knowledge is power," wrote a New York City agent in an e-mail thanking Lake for alerting him to the website.) Among the theories Lake has shared with the feds is his idea, based on the "sloped letters and little balls...