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...portrait of a church not so much corrupt as morally lazy after centuries in command of an overwhelmingly Catholic country. Bland bishops, older priests turning a blind eye to drug lords, churchly displeasure with the film's most heroic figure--a people's padre--are shown with cool objectivity. Exit polls in Mexico found that 70% of audiences approved of the movie...
United Nations weapons inspectors are back in Baghdad. Their return this week came almost exactly four years after their hasty departure in 1998. That exit had signaled the start of Operation Desert Fox, a four-day, U.S.-led bombing campaign to punish Iraq for failing to comply with UN disarmament resolutions. But Desert Fox was followed by a stalemate - no inspections, and no end to sanctions - until the Security Council two weeks ago adopted Resolution 1441. Now, renewed inspections are not just the route to ending sanctions; they could determine the very future of Saddam Hussein's regime...
BEST EVIDENCE THAT THE WEST WING HAS LOST TOUCH WITH REALITY In last week's episode, not only did Democratic President Bartlet win in a landslide--the VNS exit polls worked...
...businesses can be sold, says Peter Thorne, an analyst at Pictet & Cie, "they need fixing." Other analysts, noting bad investments in everything from real estate to Internet companies, question whether Credit Suisse has purged its ghosts. "They're still carrying their old portfolios, and they will certainly want to exit many of those businesses," says Thomas Kalbermatten, who covers CS for Switzerland's Bank Sarasin. "In the meantime, the losses are definitely not finished." Amid all these struggles, the one many see as inevitable - a supremacy battle between Mack and Grübel - seems to have taken a back seat...
...didn't Jiang choose a graceful, statesmanlike exit? It's not that Jiang and Hu, China's Vice President, are mortal enemies. They've worked together for 10 years and are thought to share a similar vision of China's future. After the congress Hu vowed to carry on Jiang's economic liberalization policies and uphold the Theory of the Three Represents, Jiang's doctrinal legacy that among other points calls for the Party to embrace once-shunned entrepreneurs. Arthur Waldron, a China specialist at the University of Pennsylvania, suggests Jiang is hanging on simply because he isn't ready...