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...word had already leaked out that Thanou was going to be one of the final torch bearers and Kenteris was going to light the Olympic flame. Instead, Nikos Kaklamanakis, a gold medalist in sailing, got the honor. He touched his small flame to a giant, deus ex machina contraption bent over the stadium as if it was getting a light for a cigarette. Very European, that...
...great deal of expectation for the E.U. to be here within a NATO operation," says French Lieutenant General Jean-Louis Py, Eurocorps' commander in Kabul. Py said the main task is to maintain peace as Afghanistan tries to hold its first presidential election on Oct. 9. Taliban rebels, bent on disrupting the process, have been attacking election workers for the past several months, and last week clashed with U.S. soldiers in the southern mountains. Security officials also warn of possible bombings in the capital, Kabul. "Without the peacekeepers, Afghanistan...
...Administration's rush to comply has rankled some of Bush's people. "They seem to be hell-bent to do something to give the false impression of progress, whether they've got a plan or not," said a senior Administration official involved in the war on terrorism. "They're desperate to announce something so they can't be accused of not doing something." But the President's political advisers were hoping not to repeat the fight over creating a new office of Homeland Security. The White House endured months of criticism for opposing the plan, only to embrace it eventually...
...number of African states, although no longer affixed with the government’s imprimatur. The Indians brought on railway construction contracts by the Brits are today firmly in control of Tanzania’s economy—those parts, at least, not controlled by middling and bent civil servants. They run the mining industry, hair salons, banking houses and cafeterias...
...foundations of our government have suffered,” Byrd said. “The liberties enshrined in the Constitution of the United States have been besieged by a presidency that is bent on a ruthless pursuit of power, that sees itself above the law, that relies on secrecy and manipulation in order to advance its own partisan agenda...