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...quarrelsome successors have siphoned off some of that anger. And Milosevic, the consummate party hack, has skillfully repackaged himself as an outsider. His decision to represent himself in court combined with his physical isolation in the Hague helped foster the image of one man standing against a powerful foe. So too has the unnamed heart ailment that repeatedly halted proceedings this summer. The absence of high-level witnesses who could testify to his crimes from the inside hasn't helped. "In principle I hate him," says Luka Raspopovic, 19, a student lounging by the Sava River. " But I am rooting...
While Demakis is often noted as a foe of House Speaker Thomas Finneran—one of only 14 Democrats, he says, who voted for a term limit that would have ousted the powerful house leader—Decker has charged that Demakis has sided with Finneran too often...
Israel's latest sweep of Palestinian towns has unearthed a worrying sign that an old foe is stepping up its role in the current intifadeh. So far, during the 22-month wave of violence between Israel and the Palestinians, the Lebanese Shi'ite militia, Hizballah, has limited its involvement to training Palestinians from other terrorist groups, like Hamas and Islamic Jihad, and helping build their military capability. But Israeli intelligence sources tell TIME that during Israel's invasion of Hebron two weeks ago, officials arrested a Hizballah operative who was planning a potentially devastating strike within Israel. The officials...
...much it would take to truly foolproof the structure I’m standing on—what it would take to search every car, to reinforce every beam and cable, to install the necessary guns atop each tower. And still, even in this wildly hypothetical case, the new foe, evil’s newfound creativity, would continue to find ways around the latest roadblocks. There is a risk, a vulnerability simply in existing...
...help she needs. Experts from the American Civil Liberties Union and the Cato Institute are crying foul over an Administration strategy that puts Padilla at the center of a sobering constitutional question: Can the President label an American citizen an "enemy combatant"--a hostile agent of a foreign foe--order the military to hold him indefinitely and prevent him from seeing his lawyers? That's what President Bush has done. Civil libertarians began speaking out last November, when Bush announced that some terrorists would be tried before military tribunals. But Padilla's case gives them their first real chance...