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...battles in the streets of Port Harcourt. After Dokubo-Asari called for the breakup of Nigeria last year he was arrested for treason - a charge he denies. Some of his followers are also mend members, according to activists in Port Harcourt and Onengiya Erekosima, spokesman for the political wing of Dokubo-Asari's organization...
...After McClellan cleaned out his office over the weekend, Snow arrived at his West Wing desk on Monday to find a ceremonial flak jacket holding a chain of secret notes from his predecessor, a tradition going back to Ron Nessen, press secretary to President Gerald R. Ford. Snow's first televised briefing will be Monday...
...Happy now?" SILVIO BERLUSCONI, outgoing Prime Minister of Italy, to the left-wing paper L'Unita after resigning and paving the way for Romano Prodi, the center-left leader, to form a new government. Berlusconi held out for three weeks after Italy's election before conceding defeat...
...Double-Edged Sword Denis Donaldson, a former official of the I.R.A.'s political wing who admitted to having spied on the organization for the British, was found murdered in Ireland on April 4. The I.R.A. denied any involvement, but TIME's Jan. 10, 1972, cover story explained how the group's brutality could be turned on its own people: "On the red brick walls surrounding vacant lots, the children of Belfast?perhaps the most tragic victims of the war?have scrawled afresh the old slogans of idealism and hatred: 'Up the I.R.A.' and 'Informers Beware' ... British command announced that children...
...inviting bloggers to their nominating conventions. But politicians are now wooing the bloggers harder than ever. Much of the activity has been on the Democratic side, since pols on Capitol Hill see the blogs as a liberal media rival to conservative talk radio and potential 2008 candidates recognize left-wing blogs could prove a powerful force in the Democratic primaries. "It?s only been in the past couple of years that I started to fully appreciate the power of what?s going on in the blogosphere," says former Virginia Governor Mark Warner, a likely Democratic presidential candidate in 2008. "These...