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...television correspondent bellowed, with various others joining in: "Mr. President, did you feel pressure to make staff changes?" The President was grinning noticeably as he ducked back into the Oval Office, as if to say: Let ?em holler! The replacement of Bush?s first chief of staff, Andrew H. Card Jr., with budget director Joshua B. Bolten may foster a badly needed sense of renewal and produce headlines about a shakeup. But this is the comfort food of staff changes - the replacement of a longtime family loyalist with someone who has been one of this President?s insiders since...
...perhaps allowing them to decrease enormous aid and peacekeeping expenses for Congo. But Jibidar says he fears possible "all-out war" once the voting ends. Electoral corruption seems likely - in Katanga, at least. Mushimi Bamuleluka, a 33-year-old refugee, says Mai Mai rebels confiscated his three brothers' electoral cards in February, and then killed them all. "They did not want money. They just wanted our [voting] cards," he said. "The Mai Mai tell people, 'If you do not give us your card you will be killed.'" Such prospects make Western leaders nervous about committing their own troops. In Berlin...
...your pictures out of your camera? Many drugstores have automated kiosks. Just insert the memory card and follow the instructions. In some cases, you can leave your memory card behind, and the store staff will print the pictures. And many of the labs where you used to mail your rolls of film now work with memory cards...
...also make your own prints at home. Most of the color ink-jet printers do a fine job, though you'll get best results with photo-ink cartridges and photo paper. Some printers have built-in memory-card slots and their own preview screens, allowing you to print photos without a computer. The best names include Brother, Canon, Epson, HP and Lexmark...
...powerful geopolitical player. A history of invasions has left Iran wary of its neighbors, especially now that it is encircled by countries that possess atom bombs--Russia, Pakistan and India as well as Israel. Now that U.S. troops occupy two next-door states, Iran's leaders see the nuclear card as a way to buy security guarantees for the country and survival for the regime. It wants Washington to stop pushing "regime change" and accept the existence of an Iranian Islamic Republic. But even as Iranian officials deny that they plan to build a bomb, they point out that once...