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...telling allegation, made again last week by New York Times columnist William Safire, is that Saddam secretly runs Ansar. According to Safire's unsourced pronouncement, a Saddam intelligence operative and a senior bin Laden agent helped coordinate an assault by Ansar militants to assassinate the secular, pro-American Kurdish leadership last year. Both, he claimed, were captured when Kurdish forces put down the revolt. Safire also fingered Saddam's agents as the men behind Ansar's crude attempts to make poison weapons that drew Pentagon attention...
...down to admitting whether they appear in a certain episode--the cast members follow a strict code of omerta. Bracco gives a variation on the standard answer: "If you're gonna pay for 13 hours of TV, you have the right to be happily surprised." Last year, after gossip columnist Mitchell Fink published plot spoilers in the New York Daily News, Sopranos writers created a scene in which a homeless woman used his column as, um, thong underwear. So to keep myself out of any untoward body parts, here's fair warning: skip the next paragraph...
...Even while labor negotiations were still grinding away in New York, the press was letting Selig have it: AP sports columnist Steve Wilstein called him "the harbinger of doom," and Jack Todd of the Montreal Gazette wrote a scathing bit about "the most inept commissioner in the history of professional sports." Unfortunately for Bud, even Friday's happy ending probably won't do much to convence anyone otherwise...
DIED. NEAL TRAVIS, 62, gossip columnist for the New York Post, novelist and editor; of cancer; in New York City. The New Zealand native wrote a daily column that often taunted the rich and famous. Once told to go easy on President Bill Clinton, Travis shot back, "He's no better than any other man with his zipper open...
...reforms, paving the way for direct presidential elections in 2004. The fractious People's Consultative Assembly, a holdover from the three-decade rule of deposed President Suharto, also agreed to transform itself into a bicameral body similar to the United States Congress. "This is historical," enthuses political analyst and columnist Bara Hasibuan. "For the first time, we'll be using a presidential system where all branches are equal. There will now be a separation of power rather than a division of power...