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...diplomatic corners as he expands his target list from terrorist groups with "global reach" to those with "global influence." Only semantics? Thursday, Bush put two new groups on his assets-to-be-freezed enemies list - Pakistani group Umnah Tameer E-nau and "stateless sponsor of terror" Lashkar E-Tayyiba (LAT), which India blames for the attacks on its parliament. LAT claims it's only interested in Kashmiri independence, and Pakistan didn't seem too interested in helping Bush go after them. Suffice it to say the tightrope between nuclear rivals Pakistan and India is still a very tough...
...Tuesday's Score: Gore 2, Bush 2. LAT abstains with Monday's paper. Only WP actually fronts with politics...
Slate's Scott Shuger found that although USAT led with the schoolyard shooting in Arkansas, there was other news out there. The NYT led with a green-card snafu at INS, and WP and LAT went with President Clinton's sounded-awfully-like-an-apology-but-wasn't remarks in Uganda over how the U.S. "wronged" Africa with the slave trade. Apparently the comments were impromptu, and are giving aides fits...
...salvo in the Jones case. As for the non-Monica rundown, Slate's SS points us to the NYT's look at what's new with Zhu, China's new prime minister; the WSJ's take a on a court win in Muncie, Ind., for cigarette makers; and the LAT's coverage of Rupert Murdoch's buy of the Dodgers...
...David B. Lat '96 was associate editorial chair of The Crimson...