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...Kabila had no agenda except power," says TIME reporter Clive Mutiso. "He spent almost 30 years in opposition and Mobutu's demise took him completely by surprise. Once he achieved power he didn't know what to do with it." It was his failure to clamp down on Hutu rebels using eastern Congo as a base from which to attack Rwanda that prompted Kabila's erstwhile sponsors to seek his ouster. "When Kabila last week began recruiting 12-year-olds to fight off these seasoned, well-trained, well-equipped fighters, it was clear that he had little chance of holding...
ACCRA would also give the Department of Education (DOE) sharper teeth to clamp down on colleges and universities that do not meet these tougher new standards...
...line with the Congressional Budget Office he once headed. The CBO forecasts a small surplus of around $8 billion this fiscal year, which ends Sept. 30, rising to perhaps $140 billion in fiscal 2008. Reischauer cautions, however, that the projections assume that the White House and Congress can clamp a tight lid on nonmilitary spending. In recent years, continued rises in civilian outlays have been offset by plummeting defense expenditures, but that drop has left little more...
BEYOND FUZZY DICE Here's a dangerous idea for the upwardly mobile commuter: Ingenious Technologies' $40 PowerDesk platform lets you clamp a laptop to your car's steering wheel...
...this flurry of activity is the sign of things to come, or if it is a dying gasp by a publication on its last legs, I decide to send feelers out far and wide. Soon I realize that it may be difficult to track down someone from the typically clamp-mouthed organization who will talk to an editor from The Crimson, the publication that has historically been the Lampoon's arch-rival...