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...string of political and diplomatic faux pas that have eroded his popularity during his 13 months as President. Roh has to take a large measure of blame for the partisan hostility that has poisoned South Korean politics in the past year. Most damaging for Roh, a self-declared corruption fighter, were the campaign-finance scandals involving his aides, which caused the President's approval ratings to plunge below 30% and sparked the first hints by opposition lawmakers that they might move to impeach...
...DIED. RUSLAN GELAYEV, 39, Chechen separatist, in a shoot-out with Russian border guards; near the village of Bezhta, Dagestan. Gelayev was a formidable military commander in the 1994-96 war against Russian forces. Even some foes showed grudging respect for Gelayev, who was known as a ruthless fighter but not as a terrorist. Moscow-backed Chechen President Akhmad Kadyrov told the Itar-Tass news agency that fighting in Chechnya would continue despite the warlord's death...
...Family Channel's Switched Up! (Sundays, 7 p.m. E.T.)--in which two people trade jobs each week--portrays the kind of working world we would live in if we all got the jobs we wanted when we were 7: a cheerleader swaps places with a cowgirl, a fire fighter with a DJ. But the episodes generally end on an amiable, grass-is-always-greener note, as when a surfer trades with a sitcom writer and concludes, "As a writer, I'd be sad knowing that there's a lot of cool stuff going on in the world...
...We’ve come to expect anything out of Moira,” Hall said. “She’s such a fighter...
...Aspirin. A well-known inflammation fighter, aspirin can cool reactions raging in heart arteries and in the colon. Similar agents are also showing promise in controlling inflammation in the brains of Alzheimer's patients...