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...singers had misappropriated identity of artificial, sawdust-filled characters CLINT EASTWOOD Aging actor named to California Parks Commission. First order of business: cut him in half so tourists can count the rings Losers ZHU RONGJI Chinese Premier red-faced over economic forum snafus. To-do list for next Boao summit: fewer boring heads of state, more beer bongs MARLON BRANDO Godfather hit with big palimony suit by his maid. Who else is a guy who lives on his own private South Pacific island going to fool around with? HELEN CLARK Kiwi PM nailed for passing off others' artwork...
...descendants of the pair first to summit Everest, in 1953, hope to do the same next month. Hillary and Tenzing?both have reached the top before?will climb separately and meet at the peak
...nothing. "It smells a little like May 1967," says an Arab diplomat, referring to the Arab mood on the eve of the Six-Day War. Fortunately, that still seems like an exaggeration. Far from being inclined toward war, all 22 Arab states agreed in March, during an Arab summit in Beirut, to offer Israel "normal relations" in exchange for a withdrawal from the territories Israel captured in 1967. When U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell shuttled between Beirut, Jerusalem, Ramallah and Damascus last week, it was a sign that the U.S. wants to prevent Middle East chaos. But with Powell...
...would be interesting to know what Bush plans to say about Chechnya at the summit. A reasonable guess would be: not much. Washington has pressing business to conduct with Putin, ranging from the latest round of NATO expansion to the conclusion of some sort of agreement on missile testing and the reduction of nuclear arsenals. Since Putin suffers perpetual criticism from the Russian security establishment for allowing the U.S. to do whatever it wants, Washington is unlikely to undercut him by making much of a fuss about atrocities in Chechnya...
...year in office until the final days of his presidency in a way that the Bush team found inappropriate and even dangerous, given that a taste for high-stakes summitry, in its view, led to dashed hopes and renewed violence. "It wasn't all that long ago where a summit was called and nothing happened," Bush told a television interviewer Friday in a not-so-veiled criticism of Clinton, "and as a result we had significant intifadeh in the area...