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...chief issue of the country's economic woes. Schroder has closed the gap in the past month and last week even edged past Stoiber for the first time in the eight-month campaign. One reason for Schroder's turnaround is his smooth performance as a crisis manager. When eastern Germany was inundated by heavy flooding last month, Schroder put together a $7 billion reconstruction plan and deferred a planned tax cut 12 months to pay for it. Even more important, say political analysts, were Schroder's strong statements opposing any U.S. military action against Iraq--whether approved...
When a diner at a Georgia restaurant overheard three men who looked Middle Eastern joking that Americans "mourned on 9/11, and they're going to mourn again on 9/13," she did just what President Bush has asked Americans to do: she told authorities. Within hours the men were detained, and a 20-mile stretch of Florida highway was closed as their cars were searched. After 17 hours police released the men, who turned out to be medical students traveling to a course in Miami. Two of them are U.S. citizens, and the other holds a valid visa. The students later...
...desert patrolmen than just being the country's answer to the Tower of London's Beefeaters. They are, in fact, a crack squad with responsibilities that include monitoring the borders with Saudi Arabia, Syria and Iraq. Borders that, given Jordan's relative freedoms compared with some other Middle Eastern countries, are kept busy with smugglers and illegal immigrants...
...DIED. DEREK DAVIES, 71, crusty but respected editor of the Far Eastern Economic Review from 1964 to 1989; in Antibes, France. Briton Davies oversaw the Hong Kong-based Review's transformation from a single-sheet newsletter into a well-established magazine on Asian affairs...
Though they cater to a clientele that's officially communist, China's restaurateurs are canny practitioners of free-market competition. Price wars, negative advertising?virtually anything goes. But in the eastern Chinese city of Tangshan, capitalism has morphed into mass murder. Someone sprinkled rat poison on breakfast treats served at the Heshengyuan Soy Milk snack shop in Tangshan, killing at least 40 people and sickening 300 more. The alleged culprit, arrested by local police, is a rival whose eatery suffered because the Heshengyuan snack shop was more popular. Such culinary skulduggery isn't new: earlier this summer the owner...