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...fight on the street Wednesday, when his constitutional court responded to opposition claims of electoral fraud by annulling the results and simply ordering a new election. That ruling closed off the last legal avenue for achieving Milosevic?s ouster, and set the scene for a potentially violent showdown...
...forces remaining loyal. To hold on to power in the face of an insurrectional challenge, Milosevic would need his security forces to use violence against demonstrators - and there were plenty of signs in the Belgrade Thursday that troops won?t kill fellow Serbs to keep Milosevic in power. The showdown has also made it impossible for either side to back down. The strongman?s decision to block all legal challenges and the opposition?s drive to forcefully claim the power it won at the ballot box may now have set up a fight to the finish...
There is still the air of the jock about Fanning, an easy-going, wide-stepping stride and upper-body muscularity that seem out of place on a programmer. He eschews carbohydrates and hits the gym most evenings, as if bulking up for his showdown with the record industry. And a few afternoons a week he plays basketball in the Oracle gymnasium up the road from Napster's Redwood City offices. He doesn't like to admit it, but at least one co-worker confirms that he is usually the best player on the court...
...Jerusalem of even dusty Israeli-Arab towns such as Nazareth, the five days of clashes that have killed 34 Palestinians and three Israelis and left more than 700 people wounded are all about the fate of Jerusalem. Qualitatively, the clashes have been even more violent than the 1996 showdown over a tunnel opened by Israel on the Temple Mount - Israeli troops have fired on Palestinians with antitank rockets and helicopter gunships as Palestinian policemen and masked gunmen have fired back, cheered on by tens of thousands of unarmed demonstrators, while Arab youths inside Israel proper have taken to the streets...
...Gore's first big showdown was his last flop. In Gore and Bill Clinton's 1992 campaign against George Bush, an underestimated Dan Quayle (with James Stockdale there as comic relief) embarrassed Gore with tactics that Gore would later use to great effect: staying on the offensive, hitting where your opponent can't defend himself, keeping him off his guard. Quayle kept Gore silent by aiming right over Gore's shoulder at Bill Clinton with mostly personal zingers to which Gore wouldn't respond. The debate didn't save Bush, or Quayle for that matter, but it seemed that debating...