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...army, as well. No one has claimed that these "coffins" were once supplied for $172 each but, in 1999, were bought for $2,500 each. There is also no reason to imply that the Defense Minister should resign. Why should any false allegation force him to quit? As a victim of Tehelka.com's stage-managed sting operation, I strongly object to your saying that I was recorded taking bribes. Everyone who knows me knows I would rather die than ever take a bribe. If you see the tapes carefully and listen to the dialogue, the "bribe" is only...
...preferred the squeaky-clean Brit Cliff Richard. For once he was overruled, and the reggae star spread a message of hope that the racial strife of Rhodesia would give way to color-blind harmony. The message was heard even in faraway America, where a young reporter named Andrew Meldrum quit his job, sold his car and bought a plane ticket to be part of this great experiment. It didn't take Meldrum long to fall in love with Zimbabwe. Initially he idolized Mugabe as the hero of the liberation struggle, but that didn't last long. "I went into...
...former Governing Council had reserved 20 seats for itself in the new assembly. Then he was told?incorrectly, it turned out?that other spots in the assembly would be set aside for women and members of the conference-organizing committee. After enduring a few days of chaos, Abu Tbikh quit Najaf's caucus in disgust. "This conference was not legitimate," he said. "That's not democracy...
...Clinton's U.N. representative Richard Holbrooke is so influential when it comes to Kerry's foreign policy views that he is considered the odds-on favorite to become Secretary of State if Kerry is elected. Kerry even picked up a hire from the Bush White House. When Rand Beers quit as Bush's senior assistant for counterterrorism, contending that Bush had gone to war in Iraq too soon and taken his eye off the global war on terrorism, Beers quickly found a home in the Kerry campaign as a senior foreign policy adviser...
...Possible at Work). Published in May in a modest initial run of 4,000 copies, Maier's essay ridicules the rigidity and bureaucracy of French management culture by urging readers to exploit it, with helpful chapters like "The Idiots You Work with" and "Why You Risk Nothing by Quitting." Maier is an economist with the state-owned Electricité de France (EDF), and though her pamphlet doesn't mention EDF, executives at the firm are not amused. They've summoned her to an Aug. 17 hearing to examine accusations that her own job performance is not up to scratch. Maier...