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...boosted the annual bonuses of both bankers and analysts. What's new is the appearance that Grubman and perhaps Weill abused their power to gain the upper hand in such personal matters as gaining entrance to the right school or winning the support of a director in a boardroom coup...
...province. A group calling itself Warriors of the Boer Nation claimed responsibility for last month's Soweto bombings, which killed one woman. PAKISTAN Narrow Victory After some arm-twisting by military ruler Pervez Musharraf, the National Assembly chose Zafarullah Jamali as Prime Minister, the first since a 1999 military coup. Losing candidate Shah Mahmood Quereshi claimed Musharraf used threats and bribes to persuade some assemblymen to switch sides. A last-minute waiver of rules forbidding party defections allowed Jamali to scrape through on a single-vote majority. Although he has the dictator's backing, Jamali's government is expected...
...Senate, an aide sneaked into Trent Lott's empty Capitol office, pulled out a bronze name plate from a bottom drawer and put it on top of the senator's desk. MAJORITY LEADER was engraved on the plaque under Lott's name. Lott never considered Daschle's coup 18 months ago, which got Vermont Sen. James Jefford to defect and gave Democrats control of the Senate, a legitimate transfer of power. He was never able to digest it. So he never threw away that plaque, but rather kept it stored in his bottom desk drawer. And in the waiting room...
...Lott had developed a sudden affection for Dean Barkley. "We're offering to be helpful to him in any way we can," the Mississippi senator told TIME with a coy southern drawl. Get Barkley to side with the Republicans on leadership votes and Lott could score a counter-coup on Daschle...
...seats in the Senate - but next week. In fact, last Tuesday afternoon, as Lott sat in his ornate office on the second floor of the Capitol staring at two wide-screen TV's blaring election returns from ten different stations around the country, he was secretly plotting a counter-coup against Daschle. That was why the phone call that had just come in Tuesday afternoon was important. It was from Rudy Boschwitz, the Republican senator the late Paul Wellstone had unseated 12 years ago. Lott pushed the mute button on the TV remote so he could hear what Boschwitz...