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...bands, it's cheaper than Christmas, better for your diet than Thanksgiving, and it's easier on your lazy summer schedule than Easter because there's no sense in having a sunrise fireworks service. I suppose the Fourth of July's nearest relative is New Year's Eve, but they're distant cousins: the latter doesn't have the same roots in community and country that the former does. Even though it's the most--the only--political major holiday, it is unique as one of the most widely celebrated by America in all of its diversity...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fred Thompson may not have his star witness after all. When Senator John Glenn sprung the tantalizing news on the eve of the hearings that key suspect and Democratic fundraiser John Huang might testify before the Senate campaign finance committee, Thompson's show looked to be starting off with fireworks. But Huang, who is demanding partial immunity as his price, may never get to the witness stand, now that Attorney General Janet Reno has announced her opposition to the deal. Granting Huang even partial immunity, she argued, may interfere with her ongoing investigation into campaign finance irregularities...
...plenty of people in Hong Kong are still concerned that their civil liberties are not protected well enough. When Tung attempted to curtail public protests even moderately, he ran into an international hailstorm of criticism. Observers grew even more anxious when Tung publicly suggested on the eve of this year's June 4 rally that it was time for Hong Kong to "forget the baggage" of Tiananmen. The Independent Commission Against Corruption is widely credited with cleaning up Hong Kong's notoriously graft-riddled police and civil service in the late '70s and maintaining a staunch bulwark against the rampant...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: On the eve of a landmark Supreme Court decision, the Clinton Administration has abandoned its gung-ho support for regulating Internet content, arguing instead that the industry should police itself. At issue is a law which would make distribution of "indecent material" over the Internet to minors a federal crime. The new policy, to be made public by President Clinton at an event on July 1 designed to promote Internet commerce, states that the existence of devices which allow parental monitoring of Internet use renders legislative regulation of the medium unneccessary, The New York Times reported. The Supreme...
...politics. China is using the handover event to stage a swearing-in ceremony for the provisional legislature, all of whose members have been handpicked by the communist party in Beijing. Bolstered by Madeleine Albright's symbolic decision not to attend, Lee and the Democrats are already planning a handover-eve rally in Statue Square that would take place less than 100 meters from another event staged by a pro-China group, whether or not they receive permission. ''We are always peaceful but if they use dirty tricks they put us in a corner," said Lee. "We might have to react...