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...lawyer and a TV anchorman. The arrests came after police used controversial powers to tap the cellular phones of prominent opposition politicians, including Pedroso's mentor, Socialist leader Eduardo Ferro Rodrigues, and Antonio Costa, head of the party's parliamentary delegation. Under Portuguese law, the police are allowed to listen in on anyone's phone conversations with special judicial permission, if they believe doing so will help solve a serious crime. The Socialists smell a witch-hunt: Ferro Rodrigues said he had learned of plans to implicate him in the scandal, although Attorney General José Souto de Moura insists...
...Hamas likely to stop attacking Israel while it deals with Hizballah. Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas has been futilely trying to tamp down Hamas since before he assumed his post last month. Although its spiritual leader, Sheik Ahmed Yassin, is at least willing to listen, most Hamas bosses in the Gaza Strip consider Abbas' regime a puppet of Israel and the U.S. Both governments have urged Abbas--who met with Secretary of State Colin Powell last week--to arrest Hamas leaders and agents if negotiations produce no results. So far, his moves have been tentative. A senior Israeli security official...
...Most Indonesians, in any case, support the military campaign that President Megawati Sukarnoputri, in a rare spasm of decisiveness, personally ordered?a campaign that promises to cast her as a bold defender of national unity just in time for next year's presidential elections. "If you listen to the talk shows on the radio (or) talk to people on buses and trains, either in Jakarta or even out in the provinces, the level of vitriol is really shocking," says Sidney Jones of the International Crisis Group in Jakarta. "People are saying that GAM shouldn't just be defeated but totally...
...Belgian who pioneered the fair-trade coffee movement in Congo, and South African AIDS activist Zackie Achmat urged TIME to keep reporting on Africa and monitor access to antiretroviral medications for AIDS sufferers. We will; when the pages of your magazine start talking to you, you tend to listen. The most fun part of the night was watching heroes meet heroes. Irish antiwar activist Caoimhe Butterly didn't spend much time with British war hero Captain James Moulton, but everyone else mixed it up nicely. Nebahat Akkoc, a Kurdish women's-rights advocate in Turkey, was eager to meet Irishwoman...
...Enjoying sake properly employs all the senses. First, listen for a clear, springlike glug as it is poured. Next, look for clarity, sheen and color in the liquor. Then sniff the brew for its bouquet and personality. Taste for all those things, and feel it swell going down. Come to think of it, you don't really need cherry blossoms...