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...Kumaratunga dissolved the country's Parliament - paving the way for snap elections on April 2 - in a bid to win a bitter power struggle with Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, majority leader of the 225-member legislature. Kumaratunga's ongoing feud with the Prime Minister has stalled peace talks with rebel Tamil Tigers. Pitched Battle HAITI At least three policemen were killed in street fighting as police special forces swept into Gonaives, Haiti 's fourth-largest city, in an effort to wrest control from rebels who seized it Thursday. An armed opposition group staged a jailbreak - in which at least...
...Another weakness for Blair is the surprising force of "Old Labour," the party members who stress social justice over technocratic reform and have grown impatient with his penchant for the private sector. They rebelled last year over injecting more private money and control into hospitals, and have drawn the line at tuition fees. For some, the unambiguous promise in Labour's last manifesto not to raise them in this Parliament ended the matter, even if Blair's changes wouldn't come into effect until 2006. Others think the Exchequer should cough up the funds to restore the system they enjoyed...
...have lived a life of fear. When the Sudanese military captured the nearby city of Rumbek in the mid-'80s, the villagers walked for two weeks to a quiet area in another tribe's lands, far from the fighting. They weathered famine, sometimes eating leaves, and when the southern rebel army retook the city in 1997, began their slow trickle back. But they have been too poor and felt too vulnerable to put down roots. Outside government-held towns, there are no telephones in southern Sudan, no electrical grids, water pipes, sewage lines or paved roads. Even Rumbek, the closest...
Eisner, 61, has crushed numerous revolts in his 19-year reign as chief of the Walt Disney Co., but he has never faced a rebel quite like this--an angry major shareholder who bears the company's name and a deep sense of betrayal by the chief Mouseketeer. Claiming that Eisner made his life "intolerable" at the company, Disney last week resigned from his posts as chairman of the animation division and vice chairman of the board. With his longtime ally, Stanley Gold, who also quit the board, Disney plans to mount a public fight to boot Eisner from...
...during the American Civil War. Reduced to drunkenly demonstrating his riflery skills at carnivals along the West Coast, Algren reluctanctly accepts an offer to train a modernizing Japanese army during the sweeping changes of the Meiji Renaissance. Soon after arriving in Tokyo, Algren is captured in battle by the rebel Katsumoto (Ken Watanabe), a fierce but predictably wise warrior committed to preserving the bushido, or samurai code of honor...