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...kept his word, despite a decision by a court, packed with Milosevic supporters, to overturn the order that would send him into exile. Vojislav Kostunica, Milosevic's successor as President of Yugoslavia, considered the handover "both illegal and unconstitutional," and the Prime Minister of the Yugoslav Federation, a comparatively powerless figure, resigned. But a majority of the ruling coalition supported sending Milosevic to the Hague, and Kostunica backed away from a threat to break up the government. Milosevic will face charges in an international court for crimes committed while in office--only nine months after he stepped down...
Global superpowers aren't supposed to feel powerless. But despite its hegemony, the U.S. could not stop the 1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers barracks in Saudi Arabia that killed 19 American servicemen, and last week the Bush Administration all but admitted that it is unable--or unwilling--to punish the crime's masterminds. Even though Attorney General John Ashcroft said the attack was "inspired, supported and supervised" by Iran, none of the 14 people indicted were Iranian. The indictment does allege that an Iranian military officer directed the Saudis' pre-bombing surveillance activities, and U.S. officials tell TIME...
...gloves or two?), may not have pressed Condit sufficiently. The police investigators keep telling the Levys to let them handle everything and not to interfere. But no longer. Susan Levy says, "They've been too slow on the uptake. They should have searched Condit's house." Feeling "powerless," the couple hired a Washington lawyer last Friday. "We're not used to playing with the big folks," Susan says, "but we're just as important as any politician...
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Send the architects south. Silicon Valley may be powerless and profitless, but Houston, the nation's energy capital and home to the oil-baron excesses of the 1980s, is back in "bidness." The energy giants in Texas have big fat wallets these days--and even bigger construction plans. Not since the boom days of 1982, when trophy architects like Philip Johnson and I.M. Pei reconfigured the skyline, has Houston seen so much construction activity by the energy sector...