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...through on his promise to lead the fight against it personally. Sofyan says the new administration in its first 100 days may file charges against big-name government officials suspected of wrongdoing. There are also plans to strengthen a government antigraft watchdog, and, importantly, to ensure that the incoming Cabinet is uncompromised by questionable business entanglements and conflicts of interest. "To clean the floor, you have to have a clean broom," Sofyan says. "We have to send a strong signal to the markets, and to the society, that this government means business...
DIED. BROCK ADAMS, 77, Democratic Congressman from Washington State who served as President Jimmy Carter's Transportation Secretary for two years; in Stevensville, Md. Elected to the House in 1964, he became chairman of the Budget Committee before joining Carter's Cabinet in 1977. After returning to his law practice, he made a political comeback in 1986, unseating Republican Senator Slade Gorton in a close race. After facing multiple allegations of sexual harassment--all of which he denied--he retired in 1992 after one term...
...despite a parliamentary resolution asking it do so. Prime Minister Marek Belka said the issue of compensation was "closed." The government did agree to set up a commission to evaluate the losses, to serve as a "reminder" of the war's consequences. Sharon Resolute MIDDLE EAST Israel's security cabinet approved a compensation package that would give up to $500,000 per family to settlers who voluntarily leave the Gaza Strip and West Bank as part of the planned pullout next year. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon rejected a call by Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the "disengagement" policy...
London theater is getting to be like an anti-Republican convention. There's Hollywood activist Tim Robbins' Iraq protest-play, Embedded, at Riverside Studios in Hammersmith, where Bush and his Cabinet are portrayed as masked, jabbering clowns, and every joke is greeted with gales of supportive laughter. And for a chewier take on the subject, there's David Hare's Stuff Happens at the National Theatre, where lobby vendors sell books by Michael Moore and Noam Chomsky along with olive-drab T shirts bearing the show's title. It's what the politicians might call twin-track theater - plays seeking...
...with Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga, in charge and government agencies such as the Department of Education in real danger of being axed, who would have guessed that the next Republican president’s main domestic accomplishments would be more educational spending, a new Cabinet-level agency, and a new Medicare entitlement? And who would have thought that Bush’s prime international accomplishment would be precisely the kind of “nation building” for which he once mocked Gore? Bush is now running an ad that unapologetically brags about increasing the number...