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...imbroglio resurrected concerns among Noriega's supporters about his ability to get a fair trial in the U.S. But more important, it renewed some basic questions about the nation's sweeping forfeiture laws. Those statutes provide a mechanism for prosecutors in federal drug and racketeering cases to freeze any of a defendant's assets that they suspect to be fruits of the crime -- even before obtaining a conviction. The targeted assets may include funds that could be used to pay an attorney. As a result, says University of Florida law professor Fletcher Baldwin, "federal prosecutors now have control not only...
...Khan, who seven centuries ago led one of history's most notorious tribes of warriors. Twentieth century Mongolian history has not been much kinder. Economic stagnation, diplomatic isolation and political repression have withered the nation of 2 million since it fell into Moscow's orbit in 1921. The most basic commodities are in scarce supply -- even meat, despite the fact that Mongolia has more than six times as many sheep as people. Half the meat production is exported in exchange for Soviet goods and loans. The exports help repay Mongolia's $5.5 billion foreign debt...
...emotional power inherent in the script of Cyrano de Bergerac. Director Zoe Mulford has done an admirable job of channeling the actors energy into a believeable emotional intensity. But all this intensity unfolds in a woefully uninspiring set. The scarce props lack artistic merit and serve only the most basic of functions...
...little like shuffling the deck chairs on the Titanic," says Stone, who says a new state tax package is the only real solution. "This is kind of interesting but it doesn't address the basic problem--the state has got to start funding higher education like the future depends on it--they...
...agents end up working in Western countries for Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Libya. "It makes sense," says Malcolm Mackintosh, senior fellow at London's International Institute for Strategic Studies. "They are less conspicuous in the West than Arabs are." The cold war may be over, but for spies the basic method remains the same: the art of survival is founded on the practice of deception...