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...with so many symbols of the tur-moil in Indonesia, the fate of the country's soccer league can be traced back to ex-President Suharto, who in 1966 encouraged the military to take command of Indonesia's sporting life. He believed the armed forces would be the best agent to encourage?and coerce?local and foreign businesses to sponsor domestic football. It didn't work: the National League has degenerated into a private club for retired generals and their cronies...
...Whatever you call it, the movie is a touching, irrepressibly funny fable of an elfin café waitress who surreptitiously arranges fortuitous developments in the lives of people she knows. After circumstances deny her influence over her own destiny early in life, Amélie decides to outwit fate by manipulating events to fulfill the hopes and desires of others. Populating that plot is an array of stock characters from classic French cinema, updated with comically magnified conditions, obsessions and idiosyncrasies. Amélie's jilted concierge tipples port in the presence of a pet dog preserved by taxidermy...
Harvard Transportation Services is in talks with Delvecchio and Karamchandani to purchase ShuttleGirl, a move that would prevent it from suffering the fate of its predecessor, Shuttleboy, which died when its creator graduated...
...fate of the latest proposals at the U.N. will depend in substantial part on the attitude of Russia and France, which have been critical of the existing sanctions package but are also sympathetic to U.S. concerns over preventing Iraq acquiring weapons of mass destruction. Given that both countries have a measure of self-interest in reviving commercial ties with Iraq - both are substantial Iraqi creditors - Washington is hoping that proposals to allow Baghdad to pay off some of its debt with oil revenues will tempt Moscow and Paris...
...still unclear what if any impact these new developments might have on McVeigh?s fate. Will the new documents, which reportedly contain information relating to the mysterious John Doe No. 2, give McVeigh?s defense team a new lease on life...