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...under Blair. But he is also Machiavellian and polarizing. He has had to quit the Cabinet twice, first in 1998 when he failed to disclose a loan from another Minister, then again in 2001 when he was alleged to have intervened improperly to secure a passport for a foreign businessman. An inquiry into the latter episode subsequently cleared him of any wrongdoing, but last week opposition from senior Labour figures still kept Blair from offering Mandelson what he really wanted: another job in the Cabinet...
...ventilation system. "It doesn't feel stuffy," marvels local resident Tong Tin-Chung, "so you won't get dizzy." The Sands offers more than clean air - there are sequined showgirls, megaplex-size TVs and a 90-m-long buffet, all designed to reel in mainlanders like Li Duoshan, a businessman from nearby Zhuhai, who once dropped a six-figure sum in one of Macau's VIP baccarat rooms. Li has lost money at the Sands too, but pooh-poohs its competitors: "There's no music, no shows. Except for gambling, there's nothing else to do." Look out, seedy vice...
...West generally is aware of only kidnappings that are politically motivated, like the abduction and subsequent beheading of American businessman Nick Berg. But the practice is far more common, and the kidnappers--the men who initially seize the innocents--are often petty criminals. "Those who take the hostages are not sophisticated," says Andrew White, director of the Iraqi Center for Dialogue, Reconciliation and Peace. "They're thugs, gangsters...
...gunshot wounds inflicted by an unknown assailant as he left his office in Moscow; the shooting had the hallmarks of a contract hit. A New Yorker of Russian descent, Klebnikov won notoriety in Russia in the late '90s for his writings on corruption and his coverage of controversial businessman and politician Boris Berezovsky...
...groups have sprung up around the country to contest the way local officials spend public money, and a national organization called Contribuables Associés has started ranking members of parliament by their tax-and-spend policy records. "The change of mentality is very recent," says Bernard Zimmern, a businessman who is helping to fund the national campaign. Retired IBM engineer Michel Vergnaud founded one of the local associations in Lyons four years ago "out of curiosity," he says - and quickly...