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...Kuchma and Yanukovych as energetically as the West pulled for Yushchenko, which makes for an awkward status quo. Having failed embarrassingly in his efforts to engineer a pro-Russian regime in Kiev, Putin will likely opt for a waiting game, and discreetly sow discontent among the Russian speakers of eastern Ukraine. He'll be hoping that Yushchenko will be overwhelmed and, like his predecessor, turn to Russia for support. For all the external pressure on Yushchenko, he is already fully aware of one of democracy's sometimes uncomfortable iron laws: the people who put you in power can take...
...abductees Georges Malbrunot and Christian Chesnot themselves - were trading accusations over the efforts to free them from their captors. The main target: conservative legislator Didier Julia and his team of dilettante sleuths, who sought to bypass official attempts to secure the pair's freedom by dealing with shadowy Middle Eastern contacts of their own. Their media-hyped campaign went belly-up in early October after Julia's minions claimed they'd not only seen the hostages but secured their impending release. Once freed, Malbrunot refuted those claims, and confirmed French intelligence accusations that the bungled initiative had angered the pair...
...spade to dig out the body of a woman half-buried beneath a palm tree. Fifty miles south in Patong, a honky-tonk beach town on Phuket Island, 100 bodies are laid out in front of a morgue that has room to refrigerate only two. In Batticaloa, on the eastern coast of Sri Lanka, dozens of men have lined up on either side of a bridge, watching for bodies trapped underwater to pop up to the surface of a lagoon. Six corpses are unloaded from a pickup truck. One of the Red Cross workers handling them complains that...
...death toll from Sunday's tsunamis that roared across the Indian Ocean passed 70,000 overnight Tuesday. The surging waters targeted wealthy Western tourists at Thai resorts as viciously as it targeted poor fisher-folk of the eastern Indian coastline, affected both Muslim separatists in Indonesia's Aceh province and the army sent to quell their rebellion, buffeted those parts of Sri Lanka controlled by the government and those in the hands of the Tamil rebels...
While Harvard students mull over the split ticket outcome of the recent Undergraduate Council presidential elections, Ohio residents are still technically waiting for the results of another election—their Electoral College delegation for last month’s presidential race. Six weeks and one major Eastern European voting scandal later, what happened on November 2 in the Buckeye State remains unclear. Though Bush’s victory is not realistically under scrutiny, Ohio voters deserve a quicker and more thorough examination of the election results than they will receive...