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...reason for Jiang's rough treatment may be that he has crossed Jiang Zemin, China's former President and current Chairman of the powerful Central Military Commission. The doctor's SARS disclosures prompted the ouster of two of Jiang Zemin's protégés-former Health Minister Zhang Wenkang and ex-Beijing Mayor Meng Xuenong. The Tiananmen letter might also be perceived as a personal affront, given that Jiang Zemin came to power in 1989 in part because of his support for the crackdown. A government admission of wrongdoing, as the doctor urges, would be a blow...
...Hollywood wants the ouster of President Bush. He is neither concerned about the people, neither can he connect with them." RICHARD GERE, American actor, describing the attitude of California's entertainment industry toward U.S. President George W. Bush...
...unromantic truth is that last week's vote was as much a rejection of Vajpayee's Hindu nationalist party as any great swing for Sonia. And the problems that led to the party's ouster are set to get worse. India needs at least 75 million jobs over the next seven years just to keep unemployment from rising. The hype over outsourcing notwithstanding, the information-technology sector employs only 800,000 of India's elite. Abroad, India's next leader must handle peace talks with Pakistan. But Sonia has yet to articulate a clear economic or foreign policy. She also...
Bakhtiar, who was on the air live during the Sept. 11 attacks, said she welcomed the ouster of Saddam Hussein but criticized the Bush administration for not having a post-war plan...
...repeat the trick in Georgia's other rebellious regions, Abkhazia and South Ossetia? Abashidze's undoing began May 2 when the Georgian army carried out maneuvers near the Ajaria border. "He was spooked," says one Russian source close to Abashidze, who spoke to him in the days before his ouster. "He thought they were going to invade. It was May Day holidays in Russia and he thought there would be an invasion and the outside world would not even notice." Abashidze blew up the three Choloki River bridges that link Ajaria with Georgia. When the bridges came down, the prices...