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...last six years, Finneran has conducted budget negotiations virtually by himself, encouraged his supporters to overturn a term limit rule that would have made the upcoming two-year term as speaker his last and obstructed the implementation of the Clean Elections law. As much as we’d like to believe that those days are over, Finneran has a long way to go before the people of Massachusetts will believe that Wednesday’s promises of transparency and reform are more than empty resolutions...
...west of the country. CHECHNYA Mandate Denied Russia refused to extend the mandate of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) mission after the failure of last-minute talks to determine the body's exact role in the breakaway republic. Moscow had insisted that the OSCE limit itself to providing humanitarian aid, but the 55-nation body wanted to continue monitoring human rights. The OSCE was the last international organization to maintain a permanent presence in Chechnya. PERSIAN GULF Military Might The U.S. accelerated its military buildup in advance of a possible war against Iraq. Washington mobilized...
...Factors: Ten of the Browns' 16 games came down to the final minute, which is valuable experience come playoff time. They'll have to limit the Steelers' quick-strike ability to keep it close...
...statements. But they received no response. After more information about the Moussaoui investigation became public, along with a memo from a Phoenix agent who had noted a pattern of Arab men signing up at flight schools, Mueller still insisted that the FBI could not have done anything to limit or prevent the destruction. Only after Rowley's memo was made public did Mueller revisit his assessment, with a feeble double negative: "I cannot say for sure that there wasn't a possibility we could have come across some lead that would have led us to the hijackers...
...there's a limit to how far retailers will go to let customers fiddle with their products. Jonah Peretti, 28, who works for a new-media arts group in New York, tried to order a pair of Nike iD shoes embroidered with the word sweatshop. That's a swipe at Nike's reputation as a company reliant on cheap foreign labor. Nike's response: Just forget it. --With reporting by Joseph R. Szczesny/Detroit