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...favor of the measure, after intense lobbying by France, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan and even some moderate Arab states. Annan cautioned Syria, the council's only Arab member, that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein might exploit its nonvote in his propaganda. Now Iraq has until Nov. 15 to accept the terms of the decree; U.N. weapons inspectors must resume work in Iraq by Dec. 23 at the latest, and must report back to the council 60 days later. The diplomatic wrangling may not be through, however. Allies hope the resolution will constrain U.S. action. In a joint statement issued hours...
Clinton wasn't, of course, the primary reason the Democrats lost, but there's no reason to think he would accept responsibility if he were. At a postelection dinner in his Harlem office, Clinton, his voice hoarse after three red-eye flights, said only that you can't beat a party with a message with a party without one, ignoring the fact that he is the master of blurring the differences, of shaking down the same wealthy donors as the opposition in exchange for a similar nonthreatening agenda...
...think like a teen and make a film that appeals to that prized demographic. The best way to do that, the director says, is not to dumb down Bond movies but to make them smarter. "A lot of action movies are very lame because they ask you to just accept them for what they are," he says. "Teenagers are far sharper than that--and they don't like to be insulted...
...French announced major arrests: they had broken up six people-smuggling rings operating inside Sangatte. "This is all about preventing the emergence of another Sangatte, where organized smuggling groups can set up shop again," says a spokesman for the French Interior Ministry. "We aren't going to accept the existence of any more zones outside the law." The French crackdown has pushed many migrants over the border into Belgium, where coastal police picked up 60 illegal aliens last week, all of them from Sangatte. "We don't have any overall numbers yet, but there are more and more refugees every...
...year-old firetrucks known as Green Goddesses - the government said the union must take or leave its final offer: an 11% hike over two years that would take the average fireman's annual salary to €37,500. The FBU is asking for 40%, but hinted it would accept 16%. Determined to forestall a wider public services walkout, ministers warned that future FBU strikes might be outlawed. "We have bent over backward to be fair," Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott told the House of Commons. "We have been met with action that is wrong ... and puts lives at risk...