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...poll marked the end of a political campaign alive with debates and rallies. And overwhelmingly peaceful, despite some reports of attempted coercion. Most expect the results, which will be announced by Sept. 10, to confirm a win by Fretilin, the veteran pro-independence party, which inspires deep loyalty among many East Timorese. After spearheading the bitter 24-year struggle against Indonesian occupation, Fretilin believes this is its hour. But the move to democracy has seen a flowering of political rivals. Only a handful of the 16 political parties that contested this election existed before Indonesia invaded in 1975; many...
...numbers for the rest of the week could either confirm or deny Tuesday?s newfound economic euphoria. Wednesday brings the revised productivity number for the second quarter - survey says a slight retreat from the former 2.5 percent to 2.0 percent. Being that we?re in the middle of a business-cycle inflection when layoffs and production cuts race each other to the ground, you may infer absolutely nothing of the New Economy?s long-term prospects from this news. Thursday brings up-to-the-minute unemployment-claims numbers for the last week of August, and a services report from today...
...allies on Capitol Hill--Republicans and Democrats alike--completely in the dark about his plans. Senators from shipbuilding states could not find out if their beloved destroyers and frigates would be axed. Members of Congress with divisions stationed in their backyards kept hearing rumors about deactivation but could not confirm them. There were new leaks every day about dismantling National Guard units and mothballing ships. And when the lawmakers managed to corner him, Rumsfeld gave nothing away. "He made everybody mad," says Dicks. "He'd listen to what you had to say, but there was no dialogue...
...Back to Wednesday for a moment: The White House?s private accounting firm, otherwise known as the Office of Management and Budget, releases its budget numbers, which are expected to confirm the hair?s-breadth $1 billion non-Social-Security surplus that the OMB?s number-crunchers salvaged with some fancy accounting tricks last week. (Bush gives a working-vacation preview from Missouri on Tuesday, which will be a garbled salvo to the Democrats trying to sacrifice his tax cut on the surplus altar...
...combed through the few early reports that hinted at the identity of some of cholesterol's co-conspirators. Inflammation seemed the most promising, and three years ago Ridker launched the first large-scale studies designed both to confirm inflammation's role in heart attacks and provide doctors with a useful, reliable way of measuring its effect in the arteries. Few of his colleagues, however, believed that the low levels of inflammation thought to cause trouble in the heart (far below the peaks involved in arthritis or infections) could be tracked reliably with a substance in the blood. "There were many...