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...lack of accessibility to the fire department, and David Koresh muses drily about an FBI agent's head exploding. Such are not the linchpins of an excessive-force case. Government lawyers are already on Judge Walter S. Smith's bad side for procedural hijinks in the trial's runup. They'll have to be embarrassed all over again about the incendiary devices. But if the case turns on the character of the victims, the name Koresh will take the government a long...
...geopolitical black arts are precisely where Primakov comes in. Although the former foreign minister and prime minister was sidelined by Yeltsin in the runup to Putin's accession and had been the presidential candidate of a rival grouping, Putin evidently bears no grudge. Indeed, they're cut from the same cloth - Primakov is a former KGB chief and Putin headed up its successor organization, the FSB. Putin underlined the significance of that connection soon after taking power, at a highly symbolic gathering at a remote dacha. In the presence of senior intelligence officers, Putin presented Primakov with a hunting rifle...
...Meier. And just last week Moscow set alarm bells ringing in NATO countries with a massive military exercise ?- including provocative bomber flights into Western airspace ?- designed to simulate repelling an attack from the West. "And the anti-NATO card will be played by most Russian political parties in the runup to December?s parliamentary elections and even in next year?s presidential poll," says Meier. So Russia plans to do more in Kosovo than simply keep the peace; it plans to prove a point...
...died this year -- largely because of a virulent industry ad campaign that attacked the "tax-and-spend" $1.10 increase -- they ought to be a little peeved that this time the taxes are coming from their own side. Of course that hasn't stopped Philip Morris stock from its steady runup -- in a smoker's blood, nicotine generally wins out over outrage...
When all is said and done, there may have been more losers than winners in last week's bizarre "rally" in the shares of the cancer-drug firm EntreMed. The stock began the week at $12 and ended at $33 1/4, a tidy 177% runup. But in the process, the company's 12 million shares outstanding changed hands an average of four times each--at prices up to $85. Sure, anyone who bought the stock more than a week ago received a windfall. But, in theory, there are three times as many people who got creamed. Cancer could well...