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LOTSOFF: The historic perspective is, periods like the '90s are rare. But if there's any message here, it's no, we're not going back to 1998, and you shouldn't be looking for the next great thing that's going to go from a penny to a thousand dollars. It ain't gonna happen...
...official: no one in Tony Blair's government "sexed up" the dossier on Iraqi weapons, the charge that launched a thousand headlines and the nastiest crisis of his six years in office. That was the verdict of Parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee, the cross-party watchdog cleared to see secrets and interrogate top spies. It found the dossier was entirely the product of the intelligence services, whose independence "had not been compromised in any way." But the British Prime Minister can't relax yet. The committee also said the dossier should have clarified that many of its judgments rested...
Outside, however, roughly a thousand protesters—including about 20 Harvard students—held signs and shouted chants that accused Ashcroft and the anti-terrorism legislation of being anything but patriotic...
...Ashcroft spoke, the chanting and drum-beating of more than a thousand protestors could be heard faintly in the background...
...message was clear. After years in the hills, the rebels are now operating inside Kathmandu and are able to strike at anyone, anytime, anywhere. Middle-ranking rebel commanders tell TIME they have a division of several thousand men in the Langtang mountains north of Kathmandu, which would give them a stranglehold on one of the capital's two road links to the outside world. They say they are now embarked on the final phase of Mao's revolutionary timetable: eliminating all enemies of the revolution, bringing a terrorized capital to its knees and, eventually, overrunning the city and seizing power...