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...monthly Bungei Shunju ran an expos? of a bribery scandal that ultimately toppled Kakuei Tanaka, Makiko's father and one of the most influential Prime Ministers in Japanese history. And just two years ago, Shukan Bunshun's special report on alleged fraud by the then Foreign Minister Makiko drove PM Junichiro Koizumi to remove her. (A court threw out charges stemming from the story, which accused Makiko of pocketing her secretary's salary...
...Dread People A court in the southern city of Montpellier handed a three-month suspended jail sentence to a man who tried to run over a man he mistook for Osama bin Laden. Convinced he had spotted the al-Qaeda leader, the motorist skipped a red light and drove into a pedestrian zone in pursuit. His victim, who was on foot, escaped harm when the car crashed into some steps. The driver later claimed to be delirious as a result of the threat of global terror...
...bottom of the fourth inning, Gordan drove in her first of three runs on the night with a single to score junior outfielder Lauren Stefanchik...
...Seok, a member of the Uri Party, a group of reformist lawmakers loyal to Roh. "It's a wrecking of democracy." Many others share those sentiments. The day before the impeachment, a protester doused himself with gasoline and set himself on fire in Seoul. The next morning, a man drove his SUV onto the stairs of the National Assembly building and set the car alight, shouting, "I'll kill you all!" On the night of the impeachment, thousands of outraged Roh supporters thronged the National Assembly grounds...
Bush set the date last November, when the growing number of body bags bearing home dead U.S. troops drove the Administration to rethink its deliberate, step-by-step timeline for reconstructing Iraq. Iraqis, the U.N. and reluctant peacekeeping nations were also clamoring to bring the occupation to a rapid end. So the Administration rewrote the political timetable to speed up the process of restoring national authority to the Iraqis and settled on the June deadline as a reasonable date--some say chosen mainly with an eye on U.S. elections--for a handover. Bush had said, "We're not leaving until...