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...government, for all its good intentions, has scant resources to ease their pain. East Timor is poor, its needs many. Of the 1,500 guerrillas who survived the war (out of some 27,000), about 600 have been absorbed into the East Timor Defense Force (F.D.T.L.), Timor's new army. The rest were too damaged in body or mind, or, like Zacarias de Fatima, considered too old. Average life expectancy in East Timor is just 57, so at 51, De Fatima should be a grandfather. Instead he is a first-time father, belatedly resuming the life he abruptly gave...
...game opens, Niobe, along with fellow supporting character Ghost, has to retrieve a letter that has been left for them by the crew of the Osiris, shown in the Animatrix short, The Final Flight of the Osiris--a letter that shows up in Neo's hands, with scant explanation, in the movie. Tantalizing intersection points like this are the Wachowskis' way of making you drop another $50 on their world the day after you leave the theater. (The game will be released the same day as the movie on all formats: PC, PS2, Xbox and GameCube. TIME got an exclusive...
...says Harley Bergmeyer, 61, chairman of Saline State Bank in Wilber, Neb., a rural institution with $81 million in assets. Banks have periodically filed lawsuits to prevent credit unions from expanding, to little avail, and have tried to stymie the loosening of federal restrictions on membership rules (also with scant success...
...trouble is that in some cases, the Administration has offered scant evidence to back its indictments. While U.S. forces have yet to prove the Administration's claims about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, the new charges against Syria sounded particularly unnerving, as if hard proof no longer matters to a victorious Washington. Until last month, the Administration had rarely let its disgruntlement with Syria rise above a whisper: after all, Assad had cooperated with the U.S. by detaining and interrogating members of al-Qaeda. But Bush & Co. were ticked off by Syria's meddling in the Iraq...
...dining hall world—give us your poor, your tired, your huddled masses...the wretched refuse of your teeming shore—or, to the less historically savvy, the worst dining hall in the world, is in need of more improvements than possibly can be suggested within these scant margins...Food shortages occur in Quincy House with a frequency that has not been realized in the United States since sometime in the 19th century...