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WASHINGTON: After the President's personal secretary, Betty Currie, endured a battery of press attention to testify Tuesday, it was the turn of Monica Lewinsky's former boss, Leon Panetta, to step into the jaws of Kenneth Starr's grand jury Wednesday. Who's up next? The proceedings are secret and there's no public schedule, but one thing's for sure ? Lewinsky will be called sooner rather than later. The former intern and her attorney, originally scheduled to appear in court Tuesday, were inching closer to a deal with Starr's office Tuesday night. It's possible, according...
WASHINGTON: After the President's personal secretary, Betty Currie, endured a battery of press attention to testify Tuesday, it was the turn of Monica Lewinsky's former boss, Leon Panetta, to step into the jaws of Kenneth Starr's grand jury Wednesday. Who's up next? The proceedings are secret and there's no public schedule, but one thing's for sure ? Lewinsky will be called sooner rather than later. The former intern and her attorney, originally scheduled to appear in court Tuesday, were inching closer to a deal with Starr's office Tuesday night. It's possible, according...
...Leon Jaroff...
...hard to feel safe in a lot of places in Mexico, despite the best efforts of President Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon. The Acteal bloodbath is just the latest instance of what sometimes appears to be the virtual collapse of public security in the country. From the slums of Tijuana to the hilltop mansions of Mexico City, a rising wave of violent crime, kidnappings and human- rights atrocities has gripped the nation. Many refer to it as the "Colombianization" of the country, a reference to the even scarier levels of violence inspired by drug mafias and paramilitary gangs in that...
...quantity of cars has risen, the nature of the problem has changed qualitatively as well. Maybe the congestion is making everyone cranky. Americans are famously attached to their cars; it's just the driving they can't stand. "Driving and habitual road rage have become virtually inseparable," says Leon James, a professor of psychology at the University of Hawaii who specializes in the phenomenon. In the most comprehensive national survey on driving behavior so far, a Michigan firm, EPIC-MRA, found that an astounding 80% of drivers are angry most or all of the time while driving. Simple traffic congestion...