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...candidate, Mwai Kibaki, 71, who was injured in a car accident last week, was Moi's deputy until 1988. George Saitoti, who was Vice President until just a few months ago when Moi tapped Uhuru for the top job, is another prominent kanu name who now opposes his old boss. More former Moi confidants recently jumped ship to the Rainbow Coalition. "Those that allege we are carrying baggage are wrong," says Saitoti. "It is we who helped install multiparty democracy in this country. But now we've begun to see a very worrying regression, which we want to fight." Whoever...
...support group for former prisoners. She refuses to discuss the robbery, which made her a household name in Ireland. If Rose Dugdale seemed a character out of a B-movie, the next gangster to target Russborough House actually inspired two feature films about his life and crimes. Dublin crime boss Martin Cahill - a.k.a. the General - had the posthumous privilege of being portrayed by Academy Award winner Kevin Spacey in the thinly fictionalized Ordinary Decent Criminal, released in 2000. (Two years earlier, Brendan Gleeson played the title role in The General.) The real-life Cahill was Ireland's most colorful crook...
...believes Washington may have wound up with useful information. Since the Tuesday- morning destination was a secret, inspectors were surprised to be greeted within 10 minutes of their arrival by none other than Saddam's personal secretary, Abed Hamid Mohmood, who, according to Iraqi officials, sticks close to his boss. These officials say that only Saddam could have granted the order to open up al-Sajoud...
...critically acclaimed and Golden-globe nominated picture Analyze This added a whole new dimension to the gangster film genre: the anxiety-attack prone mafia boss in dire need of psychological help. Moviegoers agreed that this story of the journey of mobster Paul Vitti (Robert De Niro) towards mental stability, aided by his reluctant psychiatrist Ben Sobel (Billy Crystal), was an innovative comedic undertaking which put its then-unknown production companies on the map of Hollywood fame...
...President Jiang Zemin seems determined not to. Despite hopes for a real transfer of power to new Communist Party leader Hu Jintao, officials say Jiang will remain as chairman of the Central Military Commission for several more years. Army general Xu Caiyou, whom Jiang just promoted, declared that his boss's continued leadership ensures "lasting political stability." Less charitable observers have portrayed it as a simple lust for power...