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...that in 1998, at the very moment he was providing pastoral counseling to the White House's resident adulterer, he was carrying on an extramarital affair of his own, with a subordinate who later gave birth to his child. Focus instead on his stupidity: How could the nation's premier civil rights leader have been so reckless? Of course, that's the same question everybody was asking about Bill Clinton in 1998. But at least Clinton isn't a minister...
...Wang's demise startled the banking community because of his track record as one of the driving forces behind modernization, and because of his ties to high-ranking government officials. Wang's talent for mingling made him one of the commissars' most valued emissaries to the West. In 1993, Premier Zhu Rongji handpicked him to head the state-owned BOC?a job he kept for seven years?and in 1997 he was named as an alternate member of the Communist Party's Central Committee...
...where I'm going here? Isn't a close, albeit low-scoring game better than three quarters of "I'm going to Disneyworld?" If that's the case, why is everybody treating this year's game as just a four-hour wait before the premier of Survivor...
Last week they did just that. Standing in front of colleagues and reporters at the American Astronomical Society's semiannual meeting in San Diego, the world's premier planet-hunting team--astronomer Geoffrey Marcy of the University of California, Berkeley, and his colleagues--presented not one but two remarkable finds. The first is a pair of planets, each about the mass of Jupiter, that whirl around their home star 15 light-years from Earth in perfect lockstep. One takes 30 days to complete an orbit, the other exactly twice as long. Nobody has ever seen such a configuration...
RESIGNED. LUCIEN BOUCHARD, 62, Quebec premier who has long fought for the province's sovereignty; in Quebec. He'd been facing criticism from hard-liners...