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...count their money until the dealing is finished, and now the European Central Bank is learning the same lesson. Jean-Claude Trichet, the governor of Banque de France, was expected to take over the E.C.B. when Wim Duisenberg resigns the presidency next July. But the succession was thrown into confusion last week when a French magistrate ordered Trichet to stand trial for his role in the huge losses at Crédit Lyonnais during the 1990s, when it was still state-owned and he headed the French Treasury. Trichet protests his innocence and prosecutors previously recommended dropping the investigation...
...YORK—Three, two, one. Just like that, I’m throwing off the towel around my waist and running into broad daylight, my hands thrown high up in the air as I whoop at the top of my lungs. At least that’s what’s going on in my mind. In reality, I’m stepping off Tillary Street and onto the Brooklyn Bridge ramp for a leisurely stroll to Manhattan. The jaunt assumes a level of intensity the people around me don’t share because not everyone believes?...
...Although the Bush administration has endorsed the U.N. fact-finding mission, it urged the international body on Monday to consider Israel's objections - a political bone thrown, says the Israeli media (see below) in exchange for Sharon's compliance with the Ramallah deal. But Arab and European skeptics point out that Washington responds differently when the man seeking to limit the terms of U.N. inquiry, is Saddam Hussein...
...tanks and armored vehicles backed by helicopter gunships stormed the West Bank towns of Jenin, Qalqilya and Nablus. Troops entered Ramallah and Bethlehem, while helicopters .red on the Gaza Strip. A Palestinian gunman killed five Israeli settlers in Itamar on the West Bank. EUROPE Empty Skies Travel plans were thrown into chaos as air-traffic controllers went on strike to protest an E.U. plan to put the Continent's airspace under international controls. Almost all French short-haul flights were affected by the one-day walkout, which also hit Greece, Hungary, Italy and Portugal. General strikes in Greece and Spain...
...last time the gates of a Bangkok jail were thrown open to journalists, it was to watch a dozen or so drug runners each get a bullet to the back of the head. That was almost two years ago, at Bang Kwang, the infamous Bangkok Hilton. Thailand was in the grip of a methamphetamine binge, and the authorities hoped the bloody scenes would dissuade people from dealing in these "crazy medicine" pills. When Klong Prem's gates creaked open last week, it was to celebrate another kind of madness?where the only shots fired would be on goal...