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...Many royal watchers interpreted Naruhito's comments in May as a play to loosen the household agency's grip on his family's affairs?and see last week's "clarification," although the agency denies it, as a punishment by a displeased bureaucracy that has no intention of changing its ways...
...immediate daily reality for U.S. troops in Iraq may not change too much after June 30. But the sovereignty agreement reached at the UN sends a powerful signal both to Iraqis and to Americans that the U.S. is inexorably loosening its grip on Iraq. That will be helpful to the Iraqi leaders slated to face their electorate in January, and also to an American president who faces his own in November...
...biggest news of the presentation, though, may have been the increased tightening of Mark Burnett's grip on your remote control. Yesterday, Burnett was at NBC, basking in the afterglow of his hit "The Apprentice" and the excitement over his upcoming boxing show, "The Contender." Today, we learned that Burnett would have three new shows on The WB. There's "Commando Nanny," a comedy loosely based on the former special-forces soldier's experience as a nanny in L.A. (He's been taking dramatic license with other people's stories on "Survivor" for years, so fair's fair.) There...
...safe bet that a government led by Sonia Gandhi's party will face some tricky decisions not only on the economy, but also over how to manage communal tensions stoked by Hindu nationalist provocateurs. They'll take courage from the fact that the BJP lost its grip on Gujarat, which the party captured on back of a wave of communal violence in 1995, marking its emergence as a national contender. But a Congress-led government may still find itself refereeing plenty of trouble on the streets...
...Marines move on toward a second bunker. It is taken out, and within minutes we are pulling back under fire. We run across a field divided by an irrigation ditch. "Get in that f______ ditch!" an NCO shouts. We sink to our waist in the water, scrabbling for grip in the slippery mud. "Get out of that f______ ditch!" the same NCO yells, just as our feet touch bottom...