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When a final effort to abate his cancer failed last week, the King came home. On Saturday, Abdullah was sworn in as regent with full governing authority. And on Sunday, as the kingdom mingled fears with prayers, Hussein died, leaving Jordanians to confront a future without the only ruler most of them have ever known...
...Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan's King Hussein bin Talal died yesterday of lymphatic cancer at 11:43 a.m. local time (4:43 a.m. EST) at the age of 63. His son Abdullah II was sworn in as the nation's new monarch only four hours after Hussein's death in a Jordanian hospital...
...what about the 70,000 Americans of Japanese descent and 42,000 Japanese resident aliens sent to internment camps during World War II? Even if they were citizens, even if they had sworn to uphold the Constitution, they were removed from their homes and treated like outsiders...
...computer world may have led him to create a monopoly and use it to illegally beat down the competition. What has hurt both Bills most, though, isn't what they did but their similarly flawed responses to the charges against them. Clinton's seemingly false statement in a sworn deposition that he did not have sexual relations with Monica Lewinsky seemed to his critics to show contempt for the judicial process--and it now lies at the heart of his impeachment trial. The government's case against Microsoft has, in much the same way, found its greatest traction not from...
...more about Clinton's relationship with Monica than the President expected, Clinton hid behind his secretary, Betty Currie, who he claimed had been the object of Lewinsky's visits. The next day he met with Currie to go over his testimony, encouraged her to recall events as he had sworn to them and, the House contends, asked her to reclaim the gifts he had given Lewinsky. In places the testimony is contradictory; that, the House managers insist, is why the Senate needs to hear from Jordan, Currie and Lewinsky...