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...year later, Suharto's successor, B.J. Habibie, surprised everyone--particularly his own military--by taking up Gusmao's challenge of a referendum on full independence for East Timor. And when Indonesia lost the vote, the generals unleashed their armed militias on the Timorese people for two weeks of blind terror...
...track in TV history. In the pilot alone, Christopher Titus (as himself) gets decked by his drunken dad Ken, announces that his mom is clinically insane, and lurks outside a room that just may contain pop's corpse--all to the same sort of yuks as when the sassy blind guy gets off a zinger on Becker...
...next day, when McCain was pressed to elaborate on his speech. Up until now, the Straight Talk Express has been a rare rolling laboratory where reporters--and by extension, voters--could see the inside of the candidate's head, his mood swings, his flights of fancy, his blind spots. But the nature of these sessions has changed. It's no longer about getting to know the amusing long shot. It's about testing his mettle. So the gaffes, all of which are revealing, are coming faster and more frequently...
...Gore just the way Bradley did. In meetings they referred to him as a "joke." When Gore poached some of Bradley's best lines, talking about wanting "a different kind of campaign" that would "elevate our democracy," they thought everyone would realize that Gore was robbing them blind. Nor were they concerned when Gore started hitting Bradley's signature health-care-reform proposal. They thought that kind of attack was a vestige of the old order...
...markets, and thus there's been no incentive [for local businessmen] to behave"--hence ploys like the Sidanko caper. But those who have played Russia's market for years know it is ruled by a simple equation: high returns rarely come without equally high risks. "One can't be blind to Russia's problems," says a British corporate security consultant who advises Western companies. "But one can certainly still do business here--without paying bribes and without loss of life...