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...Everyone knows there is no democracy there." NAZRI ABDUL AZIZ, Malaysia's Minister for Parliamentary Affairs, urging the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (asean) to block Burma's chairing of the group in 2006 unless it agrees to democratic reforms and releases opposition leader Aung...
...Flynn, a Bostonian from the 25th Infantry Division, whose men have yet to fire a single shot at the Taliban during their year-long duty in Kandahar. Proof of the Taliban's decline comes from those who were once in its own ranks, too. A former Taliban governor, Mullah Abdul Salam Rocketi is trying to persuade his former comrades to give up their guns. "Many Taliban want to come back in," says Rocketi. But he cautions: "The Taliban have their backs to the wall, and they're still dangerous...
...loyal commanders still conduct military operations-but only from a distance, according to coalition officials. One Afghan official who acts as liaison with U.S. Special Forces says that Omar was spotted two months ago in Karachi, more than 800 km away from the Afghan field of battle, though Abdul Latif Hakimi, a Taliban spokesman, denies the report. "I've seen Mullah Omar many times, always in Afghanistan" Hakimi told TIME. If so, nobody told the Taliban fighter chatting recently on a radio monitored by coalition forces. "We actually overheard a Taliban fighter break out into a lament, saying 'Where...
Life on American Idol has been downright off-key lately. First, an onscreen phone-number foul-up forced Fox to give viewers a second chance to vote. Then Idol judge Paula Abdul was fined and placed on probation for a hit-and-run accident (no one was injured) that happened on a California freeway last December. The good news is that Idol is TV's top-rated show, drawing more than 25 million viewers a pop. Maybe Miss Rush, Rush can spring for a limo...
...Abdul Razzaque Ahmed, an associate professor of Oral Medicine, Infection, and Immunity at HSDM, specializes on dermatology and runs the Center for Blistering Diseases in Boston...