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...Performance of the Week Hong Kong's Legislative Council members are not generally a feisty bunch?at least they weren't until the surprise September election of political agitator Leung (Long Hair) Kwok-hung. Sworn in last week before a chamber filled with startled colleagues (whom he labeled "insane"), Leung shouted, "Long live democracy!" and assailed the council President for suggesting he wear something fancier than his ubiquitous Che Guevara T shirt...
...Dave!” I hear Kimbo’s voice over the loudspeaker. “You’re supposed to wait until I start counting!” I could have sworn she had made it to three while I was riding, but then again I’m not too sure of anything I saw or felt in that instant; a total sensory mess...
...According to the police, the plan was to launch murderous attacks during Independence Day celebrations on Aug. 14, hitting Musharraf, his Cabinet and the U.S. embassy. And that close shave came only 15 days after a suicide bomber tried to blow up Shaukat Aziz, a Musharraf ally who was sworn in as Prime Minister...
...wide berth by tourists. "Even in Indian terms, it's really remote," she says. Nair was also, she claims, an unwanted child?or, as she puts it, a "contraceptual blunder." In 1957 the Indian government was worried about its exploding population, and her father, a senior bureaucrat, had sworn to limit the family to the two sons they already had. He sent his wife Praveen to a clinic for an abortion, but she couldn't bring herself to go through with...
Democrats remember the week before Bush was sworn in--the crisp but friendly meetings with lawmakers from both parties, the kind for which Bush had been famous when he was Governor of Texas. Republican Senate leader Trent Lott and House Speaker Dennis Hastert were quickly treated to a heavy courtship, but Democrats were also promised a place in the partnership. Bush assured minority leader Dick Gephardt, "I'll tell you what I think, and I hope you'll do the same with me." Gephardt thought Bush would be good to his word and couldn't help liking...