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...spokesman Bruno Vekaric said, ?We are very aware that this is a big test for our judiciary, and we intend to pass it.? Taylor Targeted LIBERIA The U.N. Security Council unanimously voted to freeze the assets of former Liberian leader Charles Taylor, who fled to exile in Nigeria in August 2003. Taylor faces war-crimes charges at the U.N.-backed tribunal for Liberia , whose opening in Sierra Leone was marred by allegations of bias lodged against the presiding judge. Charge Rebuffed RWANDA President Paul Kagame rejected an allegation that he authorized the shooting down of a plane carrying then President...
Future first-years who find it hard to get out of bed on a cold March morning to learn their House assignment could be in for an even earlier start—in August...
Indignation mellowed to frustration, and eventually resignation. When the August blackout turned off the elevators, I didn’t bat an eye at the order to march up 15 flights of stairs to retrieve luggage for tenants fleeing to the still-plugged-in Hamptons. The Doorman Mafia had carried out yet another hit, callously snuffing out my fragile spirit...
...early August, when former Vermont Gov. Howard B. Dean was riding high, a friend who was working with me in Dean’s New Hampshire campaign proposed a scenario. Sen. John F. Kerry, D-Mass., would be the presidential nominee of the Democratic Party. He would appropriate Dean’s rhetoric, imitate his style and walk away with the nomination. John Kerry would win by becoming Howard Dean...
...friend’s scenario seemed about as plausible as Ann Coulter stealing the mantle of liberalism and leading the Democrats to the White House. But as Dean has left the race and Kerry wrapped up the nomination, some have started to say that what we joked about in August has actually happened...