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According to French experts, the suspect quickly identified as Ahmed Ressam was all too familiar in Paris. Officials say he belongs to "an extremely dangerous network of Islamic fundamentalists" intent on an "international holy war." He might connect to the Armed Islamic Group, a radical group in Algeria renowned for indiscriminate and barbarous acts of violence in their quest to turn the country into an Islamic republic. But Washington wants to know very badly whether Ressam is a free-lancing foot soldier for bin Laden. The leader of Ressam's French cell has been identified as Fateh Kamel, thirtyish...
...fairly mysterious party called Unity took the lead and held it for most of the night as results came in from across Russia's 11 time zones. And though in the final tally Unity had slipped behind the Communist Party, it was an astounding upset. A group that was founded just three months ago and that had scarcely campaigned will be a major force in the new Duma...
Unity's creators--a small group of people in and around the "Family," as Yeltsin's aides and hangers-on are known--wanted a reassuringly predictable election. "Were you surprised by the results?" a reporter from the daily Kommersant asked Tatyana Dyachenko, Yeltsin's daughter and aide and one of the most powerful figures behind the throne. "Come on," she replied. "What surprises? Everything was precisely calculated." The day after the elections, when other parties were crying foul or doing deals, a Unity official said there would be no party press conference. "We don't see the need," he explained...
...election, however, is Primakov. Few now remember his announcement on the eve of the election that he would run for President. Primakov's bloc will end up with a respectable number of Duma seats. But it had much greater expectations: it was supposed to be the second largest group in the Duma, the party of the leader in waiting...
Four years ago, a group of lesbian and gay Vermonters got together in the basement of an Episcopal church to plot the redefinition of marriage. Among them were a nurse, a few lawyers and a pair of Christmas-tree farmers. They thought the state should treat their relationships no differently from those of heterosexuals, and they eventually brought a lawsuit...