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...Davis' political committee for fighting the petition has filed a lawsuit alleging recall backers broke election laws while collecting signatures. The legal challenge is most likely doomed to failure, but could delay a vote until next March, when it would coincide with the state?s presidential primary, which is bound to draw a high Democratic turnout to the polls - a move that could help Davis. But by fighting the recall in court, the Governor may anger many of the voters whose support he needs...
...good, bleeding-heart preoccupation with the suffering of those unfortunate to live in places of no consequence. In a biting criticism, Michael Mandelbaum of Johns Hopkins University in a 1996 article in Foreign Affairs dubbed the Clintonian strategy "foreign policy as social work." Such an approach, Mandelbaum argued, was bound to be both prohibitively expensive and unlikely to sustain the support of the American public...
Stephan P. Sonnenberg, a Harvard Human Rights Project Fellow and a student at Harvard Law School who has worked closely with Okhotin in the last months, says that once Okhotin turned down their bribe solicitations, the officials were bound to ratchet up the legal pressure...
...Yemen returned to the North via Germany, loading up with a shipment of sodium cyanide?a chemical used in metal plating and gold extraction that can also be used to make nerve gas. That shipment was blocked by German and French authorities. Germany also recently blocked a North Korea-bound consignment of aluminum tubes?key components for the centrifuges used to enrich uranium to bomb-grade quality. Chinese companies have sold specialty steel to North Korea for use in its missile program, as well as gyroscopes and accelerometers (used to measure vibration and g-force) that are potential missile parts...
...press conference in Beijing, but what about India's most famous foreign resident, the Dalai Lama? A junior correspondent queried whether the aging Prime Minister would be around to complete New Delhi's rapprochement with Beijing. Another contrasted China's soaring economic progress with India's bureaucracy-bound growth. Vajpayee held up his hands and grinned at his last inquisitor. "Give me another five years," he said. "We'll get there...