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...passed "incriminating documents" to the Security Service and the Prosecutor General. Both offices pledged to investigate. The big question is how the feud between Yushchenko and Tymoshenko will play out. The post of Prime Minister is to get major new powers on Jan. 1, rendering the President much weaker. Yushchenko's own popularity has been slumping anyway in the wake of revelations that his son has been driving a $140,000 BMW imported in violation of customs laws, and that his family has trademarked the symbols of the orange revolution. These include the word Yushchenko and the slogan i believe...
...Until recently, Roberts' carefully measured conservatism left many legal experts certain that Bush would make a much more conservative second pick, tapping someone like appeals court Judges J. Michael Luttig or J. Harvie Wilkinson III, who have long been darlings of the conservative bar. But Bush's weaker political standing may nudge him another way now, toward someone like Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, former Deputy Attorney General Larry Thompson, an African American or a woman like appellate court Judge Edith Clement...
...Sistani-backed United Iraqi Alliance. Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari's Dawa party, SCIRI's alliance partner, has opposed creating a Shi'ite region in the south. There is suspicion that Iran is behind Hakim's call because of fears that Iraq, under the new constitution, will have a weaker central government than it has now, meaning any Iranian influence via Baghdad will be curtailed as well. The proposal alarms the Americans, who never anticipated the emergence of an Iranian-influenced southern region. Iranian influence is widely perceived as one of the greatest challenges in post-Saddam Iraq...
...first tremors struck at 11:55 a.m. Friday. By nightfall El Salvador's capital, San Salvador (pop. 800,000), was virtually cut off from the rest of the world, plunged into darkness and littered with rubble. Though the quake, at 5.2 to 5.4 on the Richter scale, was considerably weaker than the 8.1 killer that leveled much of Mexico City last fall, it appears to have wrought terrible destruction...
...harder time maintaining quality. "They're not out of the woods yet," says J.D. Power's Parker. Dwindling profit margins are another problem. The average Hyundai car retails for 10% to 15% less than a comparable Toyota or Honda in the U.S., but with rising labor costs and a weaker dollar, Hyundai must persuade customers to pay more so that profits keep growing. Last year Hyundai's earnings edged up a mere 2% while sales grew 10%. Lehman Bros. auto analyst Zayong Koo says, "They need to show a track record of good-quality cars in order for them...