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...within hours of Deuba's appointment, Nepal's political leaders reverted to their usual bickering. The nation's communist parties, disappointed that their candidate hadn't been tapped for the top job, waffled over whether to support Deuba's government. And Nepal's Congress Party (of which Deuba heads a breakaway faction) refused to cooperate with the new Prime Minister, with one leader even vowing to continue antigovernment protests...
...among the usual suspects rounded up by Beijing authorities was Dr. Jiang Yanyong, the retired surgeon who blew the whistle on the government's cover-up of the 2003 SARS outbreak. Earlier this spring, Jiang penned a letter to China's leaders, urging them to reconsider their unrepentant stance on the massacre and describing his own haunting memories of the mangled bodies brought to his hospital that night. The disappearance last Wednesday of Jiang and his wife, Hua Zhongwei, appears to be the strongest reaction yet to his criticisms of the government, and underscores Beijing's continued determination to discourage...
...than by the bombs. The media's reaction was disproportionate to the seriousness of the incident. Greece has done more than enough to safeguard the success of the Games. Athens is quite a safe place?no need to panic. Most of my compatriots have canceled going away on their usual August holidays in order to attend the Olympic Games. Come to Athens and watch the athletic contests, expose yourself to Hellenic civilization and take a vacation in the beautiful Greek Islands. Christos Alexopoulos Athens...
...Even this season?s nominated musicals are not the usual load of high-kicking fluff. One of the four Best Musical contenders, Caroline, or Change, is somber meditation on race relations, focusing on a Jewish boy growing up in the South during the 1960s and his family?s black maid. The second-biggest nomination getter (after the musical Wicked) is Assassins, Stephen Sondheim?s dark musical about the killers or would-be killers of American Presidents. Even the new revival of Fiddler on the Roof has been reconceived in darker tones than many audience members (and critics) were prepared...
...modifications. Senator Clinton was no longer talking about a sweeping plan to force employers to provide insurance for their workers. Indeed, she favors John Kerry's approach of providing less intrusive tax credits to the uninsured. And the New Democrats she was talking to weren't the usual suspects either: not the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC), which provided the intellectual muscle for Bill Clinton's presidency but a younger, newer group, the New Democrat Network, which has emerged as a significant force in Democratic politics, home to a more moderate form of moderation...