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...film and organized crime capital since 1990. The 41-year-old's scorecard has made him the country's deadliest cop ahead of two other inspectors, Praful Bhosle, 46, and Vijay Salaskar, 45, who have clocked scores of 82 and 40, respectively. All three are from Bombay's ?lite Criminal Intelligence Unit, which, as Mob crime spiraled out of control in the early 1990s, was tasked with taking down the bad guys, guns blazing if necessary. Few mobsters went quietly: police shot 71 in "encounters" in 1997, 83 in 1999 and 97 in 2001. In all, since records of shoot...
...inexhaustible reserve; post-strike polls showed most people were opposed to another walkout. - By Aparisim Ghosh. With reporting by Amanda Bower and Hugh Porter/London CHECHNYA A Guerrilla's Last Stand They slipped into Chechnya last week, a group of Russian commandos from the secretive Alpha antiterrorist unit, the same ?lite troops that stormed the Moscow theater last month. Their number is not known, but their mission is: to kill Shamil Basayev, the guerrilla "emir" who approved and probably thought up the Chechen hostage-taking operation. Basayev's recent statements seem to be challenging Moscow to come...
...Central Committee: Zhang Ruimin, CEO of Haier, China's most successful refrigerator maker. "The Party has changed its colors," says Jean-Pierre Cabestan, director of the Hong Kong-based French Center for Research on Contemporary China. "It doesn't care about ordinary people, it cares only about the ?lite...
...Maybe that accounts for the disproportionately high number of local businesses with a French ambiance. Restaurants Chez Swan and Lek's Pause-Caf?, the ?lite Galerie, and Latino Swimming Pool?a funky pool-and-nightclub complex just outside town?all have a Francophone presence behind the scenes. For tips on the hottest food and entertainment venues, ask resident expats. They wear berets and hang out smoking cigarettes in caf?s...
...with children. (However, some cases have been brought against men who have raped children.) Meanwhile, child advocates say the fear of AIDS has boosted the allure of underage partners for local men, and that buying a virgin is a sign of prestige to some members of Cambodia's ?lite. "It's become socially acceptable to sleep with young girls," says Sochua. "The message is, 'It's O.K. Do it. You won't be punished...