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...savor his first big presidential victory. "I was given six years to improve Mexico and I'm going to do it," a reanimated Fox told TIME in an interview at the Mexico City presidential palace, Los Pinos. Waiting for the immigration announcement "has been a long, three-year haul," he said. "But I feel vindicated." The timing couldn't be better for Fox: this week he plays host to Bush and 32 other hemispheric heads of state at the Summit of the Americas in Monterrey. The rich industrial city sits in Mexico's cowboy north, a favorite backdrop...
Dingman said Kirkland’s run of abbreviated senior tutor terms is a “fluke,” and that most tutors stay for the extent of their three-year appointments, with many accepting offers of two-year extensions...
...rules that apply when their soldiers open fire with potentially lethal force - particularly along the controversial new route of the security fence - and when Israeli protesters might be the target. Under the army's rules of engagement, incongruously code-named Purple Lilac, issued at the start of the three-year intifadeh, soldiers can use live ammunition only when they believe their lives are threatened. Human-rights groups say large numbers of unarmed Palestinians have been shot without justification during the intifadeh and that the army does little to investigate the deaths and injuries. But it took the wounding...
Marquette was scheduled to come home in early 2004. Catherine thought it would be for good, that he would pursue his plan to become a nurse. But without telling his mother, he signed up for an additional three-year Army stint. He has been promised a six-month break between tours of duty, but his mother is worried his luck will run out before he can get home. After U.S. troops arrested Saddam Hussein on Dec. 13, a bullet narrowly missed Marquette's head while he was on patrol in Baghdad. "He says it's worse now. They've gotten...
...return of Serbian troops to Kosovo. Seselj is in good company: his prison mate in the Hague, Milosevic, was recently heard on Serbian radio exhorting the faithful to vote for him on behalf of the "martyrs" of Kosovo. Such displays leave some Serbs wondering whether their country's three-year experiment with Western-style democracy is coming to an end. "Serbs are mad as hell and the Radicals, especially, are positioning themselves to get that protest vote," said Miodrag Popovic, an Apple computer salesman in Belgrade. "I am definitely worried." Should he be? Even if the Radical Party wins more...