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...INDONESIA Censure President Abdurrahman Wahid appeared before Indonesia's parliament to answer a censure motion over financial scandals involving $6.1 million. "I don't accept the memorandum [of censure]," he said. "This answer is important to maintain dignity over these baseless allegations." But opposition leaders warned that the response was unlikely to save him from moves toward impeachment, which could come in August...
...successful you have to have some kind of conviction of where you want to go, some kind of understanding of what your people will accept," he said...
...Daschle can't crow either. During last year's campaign, Democrats were willing to accept only a $500 billion tax cut. Even if you use $1.18 trillion as the tax cut the Senate passed, it's closer to Bush's original number than the Democrats...
...sense, but in private lives, how much fun was the past decade? For most Americans it was a time of struggling to keep up with everyone who seemed to be making it big. Now that the bubble of financial speculation has burst, people should - and do - feel entitled to accept more modest aspirations. The real estate market was a prime example of a 1980s torture track. Americans started thinking of housing as a vehicle for getting rich, rather than as just shelter, and it became an obsession. Author Ann Beattie, a chronicler of the baby boom, fled Manhattan...
...sure they are served to Mr. Milosevic," said Hans Holthuis, registrar of the Netherlands-based war crimes tribunal, before meeting Thursday with Serbian justice minister Vladan Batic in Belgrade. He later told the independent Beta news agency that "we had good talks," although Batic reportedly didn't accept the papers, saying they had to be presented instead to the federal justice minister, Momcilo Grubac. Holthuis and Grubac are scheduled to meet Friday. Full Story...