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...assault. Now in the early hours of Saturday, gunshots from inside had forced into action the waiting Spetsnaz commando troops in the elite Alfa and Vympel antiterror units of the Federal Security Service. The Chechen hostage takers, it seemed, were about to fulfill their death vow. They had sworn that if Russian President Vladimir Putin had not declared an end to the war in Chechnya by Saturday at dawn, they would start killing hostages. If they were assaulted, they made clear they were ready to blow up explosives plastered around the auditorium and strapped to their bodies...
...Whoever is sworn in on Jan. 3, 2003, will have a tough time living up to Wellstone's contrarian act. No other member of the Senate was on the losing side of so many 99-to-1 or 98-to-2 votes, and none voted more consistently against the Bush Administration, according to the Congressional Quarterly. But Wellstone was not merely obstreperous. Born to Russian-Jewish immigrants, he was encouraged by his father, a frustrated playwright and essayist who spoke 10 languages and worked for the U.S. Information Agency under Edward R. Murrow, to live a life that merged intellectual...
This summer the transcripts of the depositions were publicly released, including those sworn by University President Lawrence H. Summers, the director of Harvard’s endowment investment company and HIID’s former Director Jeffrey D. Sachs ’76. With their release came revelations about internal University politics...
...Unfortunately, Megawati, Indonesia's third president since 1999, hasn't been up to the task. Even her supporters label her slow-moving and indecisive. Megawati was sworn in last year after a crisis during which her beleaguered predecessor, Abdurrahman Wahid, tried to call emergency rule to save himself from impeachment. Since then, she's been paralyzed by countervailing political forces. After years of repression, social groups of all types, from religious organizations to labor, are asserting themselves in Indonesia's new democracy, looking to right old wrongs and creating a cacophony of competing interests...
COLOMBIA Deadly Welcome A U.S. spotter plane and 20,000 soldiers and police were not enough to ensure safety in the capital Bogotá, as at least 17 civilians were killed and nearly 60 people were wounded in explosions minutes before Alvaro Uribe was sworn in as Colombia's new President. No group claimed responsibility, but several factors pointed to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (farc): the deadliness of the strike within 800 m of the presidential palace, the use of homemade mortars and an earlier pledge by Uribe to get tough on the Marxist guerrilla group. "Expect action...