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Saturday, Broadbent continued his bitter rivalry with Illingworth. The pair’s history dates back to high school play, and there is very little love lost between them...
...Troubles in Nepal Kudos to Alex Perry for boldly reporting the bitter situation Nepal is facing [Feb. 2]. The political impasse will soon turn into an international crisis if left unattended. The symptoms of autocracy are seen in the nation, although no one, not even the King, wants this to happen. The failed politics of the past 12 years has been the chief cause of this crisis. The sacking of the Prime Minister's government 17 months ago by the King was a constructive move at an appropriate time. The King's commitment to constitutional monarchy and multiparty democracy...
...behind for the first time in four years, on 37%. In a prompt about-face, Clark appointed the country's first Race Relations Minister - non-Maori Trevor Mallard - to ensure that policies and laws are race-neutral. "She has looked at the polls and realized this is not some bitter rednecks on the fringes," says political commentator Jane Clifton. "This is deep-seated in middle New Zealand." Mayor Harrison, a fierce critic of the government, puts it more bluntly: "We've got a revolution here...
Catlin, though pleased he helped move the case forward, is under no illusions that the jig is up for the dopers. If one lab can invent a nearly undetectable steroid, others are certainly doing the same. "People are developing designer drugs of all sorts," he says. "That's the bitter part. The sweetness is that [this time] it was discovered." For the four men soon to go on trial, things are about to get anything but sweet. --Reported by Lisa Takeuchi Cullen and Mitch Frank/New York, Laura A. Locke and Daniel Terdiman/San Francisco and Jeffrey Ressner/Los Angeles
...also stirred up old resentments in the Berber-speaking region against the central government in Rabat. Protests spread as survivors complained of the government's slow response to the disaster. "We are hungry and there is nothing to eat!" hundreds chanted in the Mediterranean coastal city of Al Hoceima. Bitter over government repression and local corruption, people looted relief supplies. "I went to the town hall asking for blankets, but some people had stolen them and were selling them instead," said Al Hoceima resident Turiya Faylali. Government spokesman Nabil Benabdallah denied reports that authorities failed to distribute foreign relief material...