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...time to meet with the Czech prime minister, he could not find room in his schedule to slip in a meeting with the leader of the largest European nation. At a private dinner Wednesday night, the two men could not have been sat farther apart. Bush who is expert at working a room, barely wandered into Schroeder's corner. The next day Bush merely said their interaction had been "cordial," one of the signature diplomatic characterizations used to keep from causing overt offense, but little more...
...Rove learned that the polls were tightening in the Senate race in North Carolina, the Republican Senatorial Committee sent an additional $1.5 million to help Elizabeth Dole. "They had the resources ready, and they didn't hesitate to pull the trigger," says consultant Ed Gillespie, one of Rove's expert surrogates who handled that race...
...testified to not having said "nigger" in the past decade; the defense found a taped interview through which he sprinkled the epithet like jimmies on a sundae, then used his perjury to imply that Simpson was framed by racists. A few years later, he resurfaced as a TV-news expert crime commentator. Was this Fuhrman or his nonevil twin...
...playing a shell game with dead bodies. Last week, a Japanese fact-finding team discovered that the ostensible remains of abductee Kaoru Matsuki, who supposedly died in North Korea at age 42, appear to actually be those of a 60-year-old woman, according to a dental expert who examined a jaw fragment. Meanwhile, a group of abductees' families is raising questions about the authenticity of the documentation that is supposed to back North Korea's accounts of what happened to victims. For example, most death certificates presented by Pyongyang were printed on identical forms issued by a mysterious '695th...
...Jiang's support, portending political infighting that will distract the country's leaders from China's pressing social and economic challenges, which include rising unemployment and epidemic corruption. "Jiang has made a terrible mistake" by undermining Hu and hanging on to power, says Cheng Li, a professor and China expert at Hamilton College...