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...Much of the credit is due to external events: American pressure and assistance, international debt rescheduling, the flow of capital from Pakistanis abroad back into the country. And much of the credit belongs to Musharraf and to his economic team, led by ex-Citibanker Shaukat Aziz. But as the crisis that once engulfed Pakistan recedes, many of us are beginning to ask, "What...
...impression that there is a quick fix for difficulties that have developed over a long period of time. Vijayalakshmi Senthilkumar Beaumont, Texas, U.S. Kerry's military service and Vietnam heroics cannot be overlooked in our current state of war. Who is President Bush to ask American troops to go abroad and fight when he was disinclined to do so himself? Only someone who knows what war entails can determine if war is truly necessary. Matthew Herman Westport, Connecticut, U.S. Europe Needs Tax Reform Your article on the sharp increase in taxes in Europe in the past 30 years included...
...Filipino truck driver Angelo de la Cruz was taken hostage by Iraqi insurgents on July 8 and threatened with beheading unless the Philippines withdrew its soldiers. The protesters were undeterred by the bloodshed and kidnappings?they said they were willing to risk their lives for relatively high-paying jobs abroad...
According to a Pakistani law-enforcement official, Khan was a gifted techie. He helped bin Laden's network set up incendiary Islamist websites in Pakistan and abroad, sent encrypted messages through the Internet to al-Qaeda cells and helped research other useful information, such as how to use computer models to determine the amount of plastic explosive required to blast through a skyscraper's concrete foundations. Pakistani investigators say Khan used different Internet cafes and relayed coded messages through secure websites that required a numbered password to gain entry. He never used a cell phone and instead made calls...
This was my first summer living on my own. I’ve gone to sleepaway camp and spent a month abroad, but this was going to be the summer that I learned about living in the “real world.” I was going to teach myself how to cook, clean, and master other mundane tasks that have so far eluded...