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...prisoners, including student leader MIN KO NAING, 42 (pictured after his release from Sittwe prison), and at least two dozen members of Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi's opposition National League for Democracy; from jails around the country; in Burma. Reasons for the mass release remain unclear; the move follows last month's purge of Prime Minister Khin Nyunt by the junta, and state media have reported that the prisoners had been "inappropriately" jailed by the former PM's intelligence apparatus. Min Ko Naing, a leader of 1988's student democracy protests, had been in jail since March...
...then some, because in exchange taxpayers receive reduced traditional benefits. In the short term, though, an already huge federal budget deficit would continue to swell, potentially driving up interest rates and slowing the economy. Even if all parties agreed on the promise of an "ownership society," it remains unclear how we would get there. --With reporting by Eric Roston/ Washington and Jyoti Thottam/New York
...frontier. And another episode has some senior U.S. officials worried: the theft of a crop-duster aircraft south of San Diego, apparently by three men from southern Mexico who assaulted a watchman and then flew off in a southerly direction. Though the theft's connection to terrorism remains unclear, a senior U.S. law-enforcement official notes that crop dusters can be used to disperse toxic substances. The plane, stolen at night two weeks ago, has not been recovered...
Whether Seif is Libya's future and his father its past is still unclear. But Gaddafi agreed to curtail Libya's nuclear-weapons program as well as pay damages to the families of those killed in the 1988 Pan Am airline bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland, and the non-American survivors of the 1986 bombing of a West Berlin discothèque. As a result, President Bush announced he would begin lifting economic sanctions against Libya. The European Union recently followed. "It was the right decision," says Seif of his father's new Western-friendly stance, "the right initiative...
Summers and his committee are aiming to issue a new round of recommendations to the Faculty next semester. But it is unclear how their proposals will differ from those presented last spring...