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...declined to comment; Zhvania did not return calls. But Yushchenko's remarks raised eyebrows. Why would he implicate his potential allies? "It might be the influence of some of his top lieutenants who want to keep the masses mobilized," says the staffer. "Or he simply let it slip, provoked by incessant questioning." Last week, outgoing President Leonid Kuchma abruptly fired Satsyuk from the SBU and a motion, pending since July, to strip him of his parliamentary status - and thereby his immunity - was approved. (Satsyuk's opponents had argued that his job at the SBU was incompatible with being...
...Bush Almost Let It Slip Away" [Nov. 15], columnist Charles Krauthammer argued that "Osama bin Laden was never one to remotely understand the American mind--he spectacularly misjudged 9/11--and he pulled his nemesis over the finish line." My guess is that bin Laden got just what he wanted with his "October surprise" videotape: the re-election of his best recruiter...
Then, about five minutes into his answer to my question "Why did you become a Mormon?" Reid lets slip that he once got into a fistfight with his father-in-law-to-be, an observant Jew who opposed the marriage for religious reasons, and I realize how perfect both portraits are. Reid's story is Twainian, a western desert tall tale, and his background is as brutal and hardscrabble as Jackson's. "I guess it's no secret that both my parents drank heavily," he finally says. "I didn't learn my family values in Searchlight," he adds, referring...
...most trusted currency, which has been melting away for three years. Currency moves are a normal part of global trade. Their impact generally is best left for financial geeks and really bored people to ponder. But not now. The dollar's long slide--and widespread expectations that it will slip further--has officials on three continents fearing that their economies are stretched to the breaking point. They're assigning plenty of blame anywhere but their own backyard, and the accountability void only deepens worries of a dollar-induced global-domino recession...
...meantime, however, Congress is wrong to let low-income high school students slip through the cracks—and to assume that the irony of their simultaneous pork barrel spending is lost on the rest of us. It seems that, for now, economically disadvantaged students hoping for a college education will just have to settle for a trip to Pennsylvania and a crash course in weather history instead...