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...Until now, conventional wisdom held that Japan's foreign population was too small, tightly regulated and closely watched to pose any terror threat. Officials frequently bragged about the sophistication of their high-tech border controls, claiming they would be sure to snare any known unsavory characters at the port of entry. Those boasts withered last week, however, in the face of revelations that Dumont slipped undetected in and out of the country four times on a fake French passport, while also being on an international wanted list. The possibility of such infiltration has added credence to the single explicit threat...
...wobbling. Those deficits are largely the result of Bush's policies-tax cuts, wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and so forth. If these actions leave the economy in a weakened state, I have to conclude that the President does, in fact, have significant control over the economy. Richard Wilhelm Port Angeles...
...Located on Morocco's Atlantic coast, the port of Essaouira was for many years a well-kept secret of 20th century bohemia. Rock stars Mick Jagger and Jimi Hendrix have wandered its 300-year-old streets, joining a steady stream of beats and backpackers who, in some cases, were drawn as much by the local kef as by Essaouira's cultural mélange of European, Berber and African influences...
...President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, who fled his country at the end of February in the face of an armed revolt. Pretoria also said it would support an investigation into Aristide's claim that he was forced to step down by the U.S. and France as rebels closed in on Port-au-Prince. Back in Charge SOUTH KOREA The Constitutional Court reinstated President Roh Moo-Hyun, who was impeached and stripped of his powers in March. Conservative lawmakers in the outgoing government voted to oust Roh on charges of electoral-law violations, incompetence and corruption, but were defeated in parliamentary polls...
...many of you out there have two moms or two dads?" hollered Roxanna Ward, an entertainer performing at Club Med in Port St. Lucie, Fla., last fall. "All the kids raised their hands," recalled Steven Boullianne, a gay father of two small boys. "Never before had any of those kids been around 300 other people where that question was asked, and they got to raise their hands...