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...conceding Lieberman's strength, the Bush campaign undercut the message it had been sending for the past several weeks: that Gore is an unprincipled Clinton clone whose Veep pick will be just another example of low-road behavior. Bush's team said he wouldn't be calling a halt to his talk of "restoring honor and integrity" to the White House, but both his advisers and Republicans in Washington are worried that they have been robbed of one of their central themes. They concede that choosing Lieberman is the smartest thing Gore has done in this campaign, and what happened...
...week later, Russian officials revealed that they have a letter they say Kim gave Putin during his July 19 visit, which reaffirms Pyongyang's offer to halt its intercontinental ballistic missile program. That pricked up ears in the State Department, which is now probing North Korean diplomatic contacts to find out just what the "Dear Leader" has in mind...
...Yasser, the party's over. President Clinton turned on the lights Friday in a bid to halt Chairman Arafat's reveling in resurgent support following his refusal during the Camp David talks to back down on Jerusalem. After all, the Palestinian leader now has to come up with an alternative, and President Clinton issued a sharp warning Friday against Arafat's carrying out his vow to unilaterally declare a Palestinian state. "If it happens, there will inevitably be consequences not just here but throughout the world," Mr. Clinton told an Israeli interviewer. "I mean that things will happen." Indeed, Washington...
...Isay, spokesman for DoubleClick, the largest Internet advertising network and a major force in the Network Advertising Initiative, which penned the agreement. In other words, whew. Because without some consumer information these firms can dangle in front of companies, the economy of the Internet pretty much grinds to a halt - and the DoubleClicks are the first...
...Suharto's deputy B.J. Habibie, Indonesia was finally getting a reformist President who preached tolerance and democratic openness. But as the blind Muslim cleric and his family mounted the palace steps, a cry rang out. A dukun--a Javanese soothsayer--who habitually accompanies Wahid called the party to a halt. He said he could see the "big man," the spirit of Suharto, standing in the doorway at the top of the steps. He insisted on carrying out a prayer ritual before the President and his family could enter the building...