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...could save the President from the impeachment that now looks likely to come this week. By Friday, Republican brokers had even fed them some actual lines for him to read, the very script that they thought just might save him--and them--from months of hell. The fence sitters weren't looking for an apology; they were looking for an admission. Say you lied, and we'll let you go free...
...while, as the public morality play went on in the Judiciary Committee, the private drama unfolded in hundreds of conversations among moderate Republicans, their party leaders and staff members stranded in the empty halls of the Capitol. Both sides insisted they weren't whipping the vote, but behind the scenes, every manner of pressure was applied: DeLay and his lieutenants worked from Texas and Washington, tracking down members who during the recess were overseas or unreachable. Committee chairmen gently reminded members of old favors. In a clever bit of jujitsu, Republicans claimed the White House was trying to buy support...
Fortunately, "Osama's buyers weren't physicists, and the people selling to him were trying to rip him off," says an Energy Department official. The enriched uranium they were offered turned out to be low-grade reactor fuel unusable for a weapon. Another con man tried to sell them radioactive garbage, claiming it was "red mercury," a supposedly lethal Russian bomb the CIA says never existed. Frustrated, bin Laden instead settled on chemical weapons, which are easier to manufacture. Although U.S. intelligence officials have been unable to pinpoint hidden caches, they suspect that during a five-year stay in Sudan...
Billy Idol released two songs online today that anyone can download for free -- and as if that weren't enough bad news, a coalition was formed today to protect the rights of musicians and the music industry from Net pirates. The Secure Digital Music Initiative, the group of consumer electronics, technology and record companies whose existence was revealed at a press conference in New York on Tuesday, announced it plans to create yet another new standard for the secure online distribution of music, within a year. "Secure" of course, means no more pirated stuff, kids...
...started work as a doorman. Now Meili, 30, has accepted an $18,000-a-year scholarship at Chapman University in Orange, Calif. The "1939" Club, a group of 650 local Holocaust survivors, will pay all living expenses for him, his wife and two children over four years. "There weren't too many people who stood up for Jews during the Holocaust," says club president William Elperin, son of two survivors. "Now Christoph has stood up for them and was punished." To get ready for school, Meili has quit his job and is studying English. "I was just...