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JOHN KERRY Dean's rise has pushed Kerry into the wings and jeopardized the Senator's chances in his must-win state of New Hampshire; expect their fight to get uglier...
...northern province of Navarre, injuring a passing van driver, again after a telephoned warning from someone claiming to represent ETA - By Jane Walker Kremlin Controversy RUSSIA The confrontation between the Kremlin and Mikhail Khodorkovsky turned uglier, with the nation's richest man warning that hard-liners might level more charges against his Yukos oil corporation. Lawyers for Alexei Pichugin, the senior Yukos official detained on suspicion of murder, claimed investigators had spiked his coffee with drugs during interrogation. Meanwhile, a judge ruled to keep a key Khodorkovsky business associate, billionaire Platon Lebedev, in prison pending an investigation into embezzlement charges...
...outcome was the best possible in a situation that appeared headed for something much uglier. Early Sunday, Arroyo set a 5 p.m. deadline for the rebels to stand down; if they didn't, she warned that the government would use "reasonable force." The rebels had lined the square in front of the Glorietta mall they occupied with explosives to deter just such an option. (Just to make sure the deterrence wasn't lost on those monitoring the situation, two mutineers wandered away from the Glorietta to cover one bomb with a plastic garbage bag when rain began to fall...
...Bush is now a big political loser, his poll numbers never lower. The failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq leaves many wondering whether politically motivated U.S. intelligence sold him a bill of goods. The American-led occupation of Iraq has been badly organized and is getting uglier, sticking British troops with an expensive and dangerous task. All of which explains why a U.S. official expects Blair's speech to Congress will have to "speak truth to power," if only to guard against more jibes at home about being Bush's poodle. He knows his oft-stated vision...
Inexperience is part of Bashar's problem. He entered politics only after his older brother Basil, Hafez's carefully groomed heir, died in a 1994 car accident. Bashar is said to be shy and self-effacing in private. He has tried to soften some of the uglier edges of Baath Party rule, closing down the notorious Mazza prison and releasing hundreds of political prisoners. Yet he bows to the influence of his father's Old Guard cronies who exert control over Syria's military and intelligence services. That thwarted his initial flirtation with greater political and economic freedom...