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...Wonder Years; and emerging Detroit rock duo the White Stripes is not a brother-and-sister act. Though the press has long described the two as such, it turns out that singer/guitarist Jack White, 25, and drummer Meg White, 26, were married in 1996. Why hide it? Perhaps to avoid difficult questions about their divorce last year. Or maybe it was a clever way to promote their upcoming CD, White Blood Cells (Sympathy for the Record Industry), which, says Jack White, is concerned with how "getting attention is both good...
...Powell is going to be greeted by a barrage of complaints from both sides about how the other is not keeping its end of the deal. That recasts the U.S. in the refereeing role the Bush administration had been trying to avoid...
...Iran would not attack the world's most powerful military in a traditionally hostile neighboring country unless someone pretty powerful in Tehran had signed off on the strike. And although outgoing FBI director Louis Freeh had accused the Clinton Administration of soft-pedaling on the case in order to avoid crossing swords with Iran's emerging reformist leadership, no Iranian officials were named in the indictment. Freeh insists the reason was insufficient evidence rather than any geopolitical squeamishness...
...important to understand that we designed our bill to avoid lawsuits, but in rare cases when someone has been injured or killed and the dispute winds up in court, we think cases involving medical decisions should go to state courts. State courts have experience in these kinds of cases, they're faster, and they're closer to where patients live. The Frist-Breaux bill sends all cases to federal court, which are already backlogged. That's one reason the US Supreme Court and the United States Judicial Conference, headed by Chief Justice William Rehnquist, favor our approach...
...World Bank announced Tuesday that fear of protest and disruption had prompted it to shift the venue of next weekend's conference on Third World development from the Catalan city to cyberspace. The online conference is an attempt to avoid the now-familiar spectacle of international delegates (sometimes even heads of state) barricaded inside heavily fortified conference venues as riot police outside battle anti-globalization protestors. The World Bank's annual meeting in Prague last September was cut short by street protests, and an outbreak of violence at the European Union summit in Gothenburg last week - during which live ammunition...