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...superpower means never having to say you're sorry. The U.S. was more than willing to apologize for accidentally bombing the Chinese embassy in Belgrade two years ago. But in the case of this collision, the near instant consensus among U.S. military pilots was that if anyone was at fault, it was the Chinese...
...Tuesday, some in the Administration felt they were being stonewalled. Jiang continued to insist that the fault lay with the U.S. The Chinese President also called for an end to U.S. surveillance flights. At 2 p.m., Bush walked into the Oval Office and immediately asked Rice to get Brigadier General Neal Sealock on the phone. Sealock, the U.S. military attachE in Beijing, had finally been allowed in to see the crew, but for just 40 minutes under strict conditions: no recording devices, no individual conversations, the Chinese always present. The crew had been able to convey word that they...
...economic address billed by the White House flacks Monday as "major," Bush hit all the big themes. The economic slowdown - including the energy crisis and the stock market's tank-o-rama - was Clinton's fault, not his ("The trend is clear and the need for action is urgent") and all his tax-cut sales-pitching has not made things worse. "It's the President's job to look for warnings of economic trouble ahead and to heed them," Bush said. (Not that he didn't feel the need to point out the bright side for a change, saying...
...costs her $2 a month. She owes a year's rent and earns just enough to buy food. Devika Khadka Chhetri is illiterate; her family was too poor to send her to school and she was married off at the age of 18. It was a bad marriage. Her fault in her husband's eyes was that she could not deliver him a son?or even a daughter. So he threw her out and got himself a new wife. Alone and abandoned, Devika is trying to scrape by. "I can barely afford vegetables," she says, gesturing to her wicker basket...
...Bubbles and Buttercup, the Powerpuff Girls. They too are the spawn of a biological experiment. (They also levitate, like the Tiger women.) And though the show is perky, and its pace frenetic, the Girls carry the burden of others' expectation. When things go wrong, the Townsville adults chant, "Your fault! Your fault!" There is a poignancy to the Girls' perfection...