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Slobodan Milosevic admits he lost Yugoslavia's presidential election, but not the full extent of his defeat - and that sets the stage for a dramatic showdown with an opposition ready to take to the streets to claim its victory. Preliminary official results announced Tuesday put opposition leader Vojislav Kostunica eight points ahead of the Serb strongman, but deny him the 50 percent margin required to claim first-round victory. Opposition leaders scoff at the figures released by Milosevic's electoral commission, confidently claiming that independent officials monitoring the count at local ballot stations confirm that Kostunica won 55 percent...
...shows, and Texas has quite a few of those472 gun shows in 1998. Bush has said in the past that he would support mandatory background checks, yet his own words and their support by 85 percent of Texans have, in five years, resulted in no legislation. The full extent of what he has done in Texas has been to make empty promises (on camera, of course, to those pesky reporters) and then evade and put off those with an honest desire to see Texas improve its appalling gun record. Although federal law prohibits minors from owning handguns, Texas law still...
...This is the best group of fellows we've had in recent years," said Rob F. McCarthy '02, the Fellows program study groups chair, "due to the sheer extent and range of their life experiences...
Such treatment should normally be reserved for the most dangerous of criminals. But even more stunning is the extent to which the government grossly exaggerated their claims against Lee. Last August a FBI agent admitted that he gave false testimony at Lee's bond hearing. Experts testified that the information Lee downloaded wasn't as sensitive as the government argued. And last week, U.S. District Judge James A. Parker set Lee free after a plea agreement to a single minor charge. After apologizing for the "demeaning, unnecessarily punitive conditions" of Lee's confinement, he sharply admonished the government's handling...
...close relationship with the great shogun Ieyasu Tokugawa, the virtual "art director" of Buddhist Japan. No artist, Eastern or Western, was ever more authoritative within his own culture; and Koetsu's work was also identified with the tea ceremony, whose aesthetic principles--and even, to no small extent, subject matter--he helped form...