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LITHUANIA Meet the New Boss In a surprise election victory, conservative Rolandas Paksas ousted incumbent President Valdas Adamkus by a margin of 55% to 45%. A two-time former Prime Minister who trailed favorite Adamkus in the first round of voting in December, Paksas fought back with a flamboyant campaign. He allayed fears that he would undo Lithuania's E.U. accession agreement, saying he would pursue a policy of stability...
...motivated prosecutors may be using the courts to attack democratically elected leaders. Giuffrè's testimony was blunt. He said that after the decline in the early 1990s of the ruling Christian Democrats - who had leaders in Sicily who looked out for the Mafia's interests in Rome - top bosses turned to Berlusconi's Forza Italia party to do the Mafia's bidding. The Sicilian-born Dell'Utri, the witness said, was the go-to man on a range of legislative efforts to ease pressure on mobsters in exchange for electoral support. Giuffrè said that current top Mob boss...
...instrument and played the line perfectly. He would also push for extra takes to get a song right. He insisted on 31 stabs at "Hound Dog," then listened pensively to the playbacks and said of the final take, "This is the one." End of discussion. Elvis was the boss...
Some might have said that Mass. State Rep. Byron Rushing (D-Boston) was crazy to run for House Speaker against incumbent Thomas M. Finneran (D-Mattapan). His foe was, after all, the same political boss who has taken a thoroughly dictatorial approach to his rule of the Massachusetts House over the last six years—the same speaker who has made sure those who so much as vote against legislation he supports are banished to obscure committees and cramped offices...
...noted the new attitude. And while Watkins rose quickly through the ranks and was thought of as whip smart, she earned an equally well-deserved reputation for lack of tact. Poised and pleasant with clients, Watkins often barreled right through her colleagues. They nicknamed her the "Buzz Saw." One boss pulled her aside and said, "Sherron, you kind of cut people off at the jugular. There they are bleeding at the neck, and then you decide it was rude, but it's too late, you can't stop the blood flow...