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...happen? How did the Secretary-General--the head of a toothless bureaucracy that commands no army, wields no power and begs for revenue--come to trump the President of the U.S.? Answer: with help--American help...
...fledged battle, with soldiers chasing and shooting protesters with rubber bullets at close range. By dawn at least 14 civilians had been killed; more than 200 were reported wounded. At the Assembly building, sealed off by loops of razor wire and thousands of soldiers and police, legislators passed 12 toothless decrees that only glancingly acknowledged the students' demands to exorcise all memory of Suharto's dictatorial New Order...
...every parent's hope. One that is nourished by that first toothless grin of recognition, by the infant gaze of almost uncanny alertness and then by the stunning acquisition of words, of ABCs and 1-2-3s. "My child is bright. My child will excel in school. My child will make me proud." Industries are built on such aspirations. There are black-and-white mobiles to stimulate the senses and tapes of Mozart for Your Mind. Later come investments in Reader Rabbit software, encyclopedias and lessons to train every facet of body, brain and soul. But a child...
...Federal Election Commission is probably the least-feared watchdog agency in Washington, which is why inside the Beltway its nickname is the "Failure to Enforce Commission." That explains why the hottest guessing game in town is figuring out how this nearly toothless body managed to do what volumes of editorial screeds, congressional bombast and urgent pleas from top FBI and Justice officials could not--specifically, push Attorney General JANET RENO to the verge of naming a new independent counsel to investigate the financial maneuverings of the 1996 Clinton-Gore campaign. The explanation, says an insider, is that an FEC audit...
...Starr, that's quite a statement. But an accusatory audit of the campaign's books by the usually toothless Federal Election Commission has provided Reno with precisely what she needed to pull the trigger this time: specific and credible evidence that a major player, such as Clinton or Gore, was directly involved in wrongdoing. "The betting inside Justice is that she'll seek an independent counsel after the 90 days are up," says Shannon. "And along with Gore and Clinton, Bob Dole could be involved...