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...action. He invites his ex-wife and her husband to his Christmas parties. He spoke to reporters even as some of them peeked into his locker and hunted down his ex-wife and past girlfriends. He didn't go after bad pitches, no matter how many pitchers tried to derail his record chase by avoiding the strike zone. Blinded by thousands of popping flashbulbs from both sports photographers and fans waiting for his record-breaking 62nd homer, he says he didn't notice any of them. Mark McGwire would be a robot, only who would make a robot that goes...
...take more than a Hamas bomb attack to derail the Mideast peace process -- if Benjamin Netanyahu is serious about the Wye Accord. Israel announced Friday it would indefinitely suspend implementing the agreement after two suicide bombers injured 21 Israelis in a Jerusalem market. But that's standard operating procedure, says TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer. "They'll probably resume discussion in a few days." After all, it's not as if Hamas attacks are unexpected, and stopping the peace process is exactly what the militants are trying to do. "But Bibi's delays all week indicate that...
...given her and prepare for her testimony in the Jones case. Clinton's lawyers maintain that in each case these were innocent activities. But Starr's report argues that with each effort, Clinton was working to conceal the affair from lawyers in the Jones case and thereby derail their lawsuit, and then derail Starr's own investigation when it got under way in January...
...economist, but the inspiration clearly came from the country Mahathir touts as the East's answer to U.S. world dominance: China. Ironically, it has been China that has been the West's great consolation in this crisis: By refusing to devalue the yuan, even as slowing growth threatens to derail her own emergence as a first-world economy and nation, China has kept a bad situation from getting much worse. Strict currency controls -- its invisible Great Wall against the briefcase-wielding Western barbarians -- have allowed China this bravery...
...crux of their discussion that evening was what to do about Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic and his military commander, General Ratko Mladic. A senior French official who had recently returned from Bosnia had convinced Chirac that Mladic and Karadzic still controlled the situation on the ground and could derail the accords at any time...