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...system, but legislation proposed to date is likely to lack teeth. The Bush Administration responded late to the public's sense of outrage, then seemed to lose focus. In the end, the only man who appeared to be serious about cleaning up the rot was Spitzer, 43, a relatively unknown state official armed with the law, a streak of fearlessness and boxes full of incriminating e-mail...
...permitted to sue only the local government, but it's the federal authorities who are held responsible for disregarding the hostages' lives in the postraid mess. One rescue worker involved in the operation, who asked not to be identified, said Federal Security Service officers delivered several crates of an unknown antidote to the theater and asked police to inject the unconscious hostages. But police administered the injections incorrectly, he said, or not at all. "I hate the terrorists who took my daughter hostage," says Tatyana Frolova, a notary public whose teenage daughter Dasha died in the siege...
...riots in October 2000, Micic and a female friend taunted the police by cruising Belgrade demonstrations in a car with "Thelma and Louise" inscribed on the hood. As a member of the Civic Alliance, one of the smallest parties within Serbia's 18-member ruling coalition, Micic was virtually unknown in Belgrade until she became a deputy speaker of parliament in late 2000. Her meteoric career has been fueled by luck as well as ambition. She became Speaker a year later, when Dragoljub Marsicanin, a Kostunica aide, was forced out of the post. Since then she has presided over often...
...scene or died later from its aftereffects. "There were no medical personnel at the place, only us and cops," says one rescue worker involved in the operation who asked not to be identified. According to this person, Federal Security Service (FSB) officers delivered several crates of an unknown antidote to the theater and asked police to inject the unconscious hostages. But police administered the injections incorrectly, or not at all. Many survivors have since checked themselves back into hospitals, complaining of respiratory, kidney, liver and partial paralysis problems. "Eventually, they will all need very elaborate treatment," says one physician...
Four posters in the Science Center about Zionism, the Oslo Peace Accords and recent violence in Israel were vandalized by unknown offenders over the weekend...