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Summers' announcement, unsurprising but still momentous on a campus rocked by controversy, brought some of the president's harshest critics to utter rare kind words...
...will not act on the Iran issue until after the next full meeting of the IAEA in March. Before then, IAEA director-general Mohamed ElBaradei will provide member states with a full report, which, barring a complete climb-down by Tehran, will be the Nobel Peace Prize winner's harshest assessment to date of Iran's nuclear program, and will state his inability to certify that it exists for exclusively benign purposes. The delay will also give Russia five more weeks to pursue its own efforts to find a negotiated solution. Russia, which has helped Iran develop nuclear reactors, proposes...
That development ensures that the President will start the new year preoccupied for a while with a fight over whether his responsibility to prevent another attack gave him the power to push aside an act of Congress--or, to use the terms of his harshest critics, to break the law. Bush and his supporters say that the President has the power to take extraordinary steps to protect the nation and that sometimes nothing less will do. His opponents say that the war on terrorism can be fought just as well, if not better, without novel interpretations...
...SENTENCED. IWAN DARMAWAN, 30, Islamic militant; to death, for helping to plan and carry out last year's Sept. 9 suicide bombing at Jakarta's Australian Embassy; by Judge Achmad Sobari; in Jakarta. Darmawan, a former courier from East Java, received the harshest penalty yet for the attack, which killed 10 people. Three others implicated in the bombing are now serving jail terms of up to seven years. Unrepentant, Darmawan told the court, "You will receive heavier punishment than what you have meted...
...SENTENCED. BERNIE EBBERS, 63, former CEO of WorldCom, convicted in March of orchestrating the $11 billion accounting fraud that toppled the telecommunications giant; to 25 years in prison, the latest and harshest in a string of recent sentences for white-collar executives; in New York City. Under federal guidelines, Ebbers, who maintained his innocence, must serve at least 85%, or 21 years, of the term?almost a life sentence because...