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...Last Sunday night, on the eve of her dramatic triumph in a bitter power struggle for the Indonesian presidency, she was to be found not huddling with advisers, but watching the animated movie "Shrek." By all accounts Megawati has always imagined herself less a politician than a princess - the daughter of an overthrown king who would one day oust the usurper, reclaim her father's throne and save the nation...
Nine months later, the investigation into the attack in Yemen has ground to a halt. The bureau and the Yemenis have tried and failed to bridge the cultural chasm between them, haggling over investigative methods and security. The FBI and the U.S. State Department began a bitter feud over dealing with the Yemenis, leading to an open rupture between the agency's chief investigator and the U.S. ambassador there. The upshot, U.S. officials say, is that the FBI still cannot prove what it believes: that the notorious Osama bin Laden and his al Qaeda terrorist network are behind the attack...
...Opposition legislators see a battle between the President and the media as a prime moment to score political points, especially with the presidential election less than a year-and-a-half away. Former President Kim Young Sam, a longtime and bitter rival of the current President, compared him to Hitler and Stalin and warned that the tax inquiry might be a precursor to a coup d'?tat to keep the President in power. So wild was the general level of anti-Kim rhetoric that lawmaker Lee broke ranks with his own party leaders and urged them to tone down...
...Because with the appearance Thursday of the literal and figurative "cadaver dogs" - including Bob Barr, who became the first member of Congress to call for Condit's resignation - the "Search for Chandra" finally reached the point where Gary Condit is at its bitter center...
...bubble's bitter...