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...surprise resignation of Speaker Newt Gingrich. Born to American parents in Rome and educated in Paris, Painton always brings a fresh eye to political journalism, including her reporting on the campaigns of Jesse Jackson and Bill Clinton. "I love American politics," she says, "because the facts constantly contradict the conventional wisdom." Of the dozen cover stories she has edited this year, Painton is most proud of two that did not come out of Washington: on the state of feminism and on gay politics. "One was meant to be an argument starter, and the other examined the complexity of gay issues...
Though he seems every inch a disciplinarian, Primakov has not yet been able to shake the new government into shape. Ministers contradict one another in public. They unnerve the markets and the IMF with widely varying figures for the amount of new money that will have to be printed to keep the economy afloat. Primakov, meanwhile, has struck some visitors as strangely removed from the day-to-day business of government. A senior diplomat recalled a recent high-level meeting with the new Prime Minister. "We asked about foreign policy," the diplomat said, "and Primakov waved his hand and referred...
There has been plenty said about the present political crisis afflicting Malaysia. With Mahathir publicly claiming that Anwar is guilty of sexual misconduct and abuse of power, how many Malaysian judges will dare contradict him? Mahathir and his cronies have been in power far too long and have delusions of grandeur. They feel they are beyond criticism. They cannot allow Anwar, the only credible and fairly clean leader to emerge in recent times, to come to power because the stakes are too high. But the Mahathir regime is illiterate. It is unable to read the handwriting on the wall...
...President's lawyers say Lewinsky's claims about the gifts contradict Clinton's and Currie's testimony. Neither remembered the President's telling Currie to pick up gifts, some of which Lewinsky kept. Lawyer David Kendall says Clinton never told Lewinsky to lie and that Starr fails to prove Clinton intended to obstruct justice. He says Currie initiated Jordan's involvement in the job search and that "there was no connection" between the affidavit and job offers. He says Currie and Lewinsky were friends, so the cover stories weren't covers...
...identifiable disability. Her scores on a reading test were not high, but the expert felt they were well above the range of disability. (In fact, Bartlett reads better than 30 percent of the population.) Not surprisingly, for the trial Bartlett was able to hire her own expert to contradict the bar expert's diagnosis; this was enough for the court to rule in her favor...