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...Resolving the conflict could save lives. Ten years ago, Hindu fundamentalists destroyed the mosque to build a new temple. In the violence that followed, at least 2,000 people were killed. The death toll spiked again last year when a Muslim mob torched a train carrying Hindu volunteers working on the temple's reconstruction, setting off a new round of reprisal attacks. Still, a judicial decision won't satisfy everyone. Hindu fundamen-talists say no court has jurisdiction over matters of faith. As long as ownership remains a religious issue, not a legal one, the holy war will rage...
Internal auditors, by definition, work in pursuit of a gotcha. So discoveries like this produce a strange "adrenaline rush," says a WorldCom audit employee, "and at the same time, there's a great sadness." Cooper's mother Patsy could see that the investigation had taken its toll. "I noticed a change in her countenance," she says. "There was no cadence to her speech. I noticed a lack of, well, it seemed to be energy...
...decision not to run, Gore says, took shape over many weeks and months, taking into account several factors, not the least of which was the last campaign's toll on his personal life. Then there were the political considerations: many, including Gore himself, insist the only way the Democrats - and the rest of the country - can escape the memory of the 2000 election is by crafting an entirely fresh ticket. And there are Democrats to whom the idea of bringing Gore back for another round was tantamount to surrender to a Bush reelection drive...
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...based on good local surveillance and precision timing, in a part of East Africa where the terrorist organization has long operated. But because Israelis were the target, intelligence agents are looking hard at the possibility that Palestinians were somehow involved. U.S. and Israeli leaders took heart that the death toll was comparatively small because the jetliner attack had miraculously failed. For the victims and their families, of course, the scale and details of the carnage make no difference. But for those laboring to deter future assaults, this one offers some daunting clues to the new realities of terror...