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...government officially turn down the brothers' citizenship request, without explanation--a decision al Fayed is appealing. The scandal, meanwhile, brought down two M.P.s and fueled a public outcry that contributed to the Conservatives' defeat in last spring's general election. Al Fayed seized the high ground, declaring he was "sick and tired of the hypocrisy that goes on at the highest level of government." But he failed to see that his revelations had brought to light his own culpability as a briber and that he would draw further resentment from Britain's power circles...
...sympathize with her efforts." As the week ended, Netanyahu made it plain that he is in no mood even to address other questions. He refused to send his representative to an intelligence-sharing meeting with Palestinian officials that the CIA station chief scheduled, fuming, "We're sick of talks...
...sick of the theory jargon, at least you'll have the music to fall back on. Radano says he will incorporate music into his lectures, require listening to tapes and will even include some coverage of the current hip-hop scene. In what other class could you find a textbook with mention of Bobby McFerrin, Peabo Bryson, Boyz II Men and the Pointer Sisters...
RABAT: The prostate cancer that killed Mobutu Sese Seko here Sunday night was the one that sounded the death knell for his Zairean dictatorship, according to TIME Nairobi correspondent Peter Graff. "In the last year, he became physically sick, incapable of functioning as a leader ... That's when his people began to say things about Mobutu they never dared say before, and when his own army refused to fight for him. It was his sickness that did it. He ruled for 32 years and was ousted in seven months...
...saga reignites old concerns aboutwhether the government, apart from issuing warnings about cooking meat properly (160[degrees] for a standard patty), does enough to ensure food safety. Nicole Schlegelmilch got sick in early July, but, her mother Ann complains, "I didn't hear from the health department until Aug. 9." And the hospital epidemiologist said Nicole's illness was the first the hospital knew of an E. coli outbreak--although it had been several weeks since that suspect patty was turned in by the first victim. Why did officials take so long to interview E. coli victims, and why didn...