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...finances demand urgent attention. Default on the country's $132 billion debt seems inevitable--especially since last week's popular rage was fed by the government's preoccupation with servicing debt in the midst of an economic meltdown. Unemployment has skyrocketed to more than 19%. Add to that a split in the opposition Peronist party, and it's clear that an end to Argentina's woes will not come soon or easily...
SEPARATED. DREW BARRYMORE, 26, free-spirited actress (Riding in Cars with Boys), from her husband of six months, comedian TOM GREEN, 30, who filed for divorce, citing irreconcilable differences; in Los Angeles. The prank-loving pair insisted the split was not a hoax...
Also on the agenda for next year: a proposal, backed by some influential lawmakers, to split the INS into two agencies--a good cop that would tend to service functions like processing citizenship papers and a bad cop that would concentrate on border inspections, deportation and other functions. One reason for the division, supporters say, is that the INS has in recent years become too focused on serving tourists and immigrants. After this year's tragedy, they say, the INS should pay more attention to serving a different population: the millions of ordinary Americans who rely on the nation...
...TERRITORIES Defusing Tensions After days of clashes between Palestinian police and militants that prompted fears of civil war, leaders of Hamas and the Islamic Jihad announced a halt to their suicide-bombing campaigns in Israel. The move is designed to defuse tension within the Palestinian community, which has been split by leader Yasser Arafat's moves to crack down on militant activity. Meanwhile, Israeli tanks reclaimed positions in the West Bank towns of Nablus and Ramallah, just hours after pulling out. The Palestinian Authority said that the action undermined its own attempts to maintain order...
...Even before the war made heroes out of CIA agents, this thriller was the talk of TV. Deservedly so: its pulse-pounding premise (a counterterrorist agent--Kiefer Sutherland, below--has 24 hours to stop an assassination), gimmick (each episode is one hour in real time) and look (a split screen is used to relate concurrent story lines) made its pilot the most exciting of the year. Some later episodes had a draggy, shaggy-dog quality, but at its best, 24 had us counting the seconds...