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...expect, none of this comes cheap. Standard room rates start at $250 a night. But the Aga Khan Foundation for Economic Development, the Serena's main backer, is betting that guests will happily pay a premium for an oasis of luxury amid the rubble. Says spokesman Aly Mawji: "Mainstream tourism is still years away but we hope the hotel will encourage some more adventurous travelers." Or perhaps that should be less adventurous. After all, a holiday in Kabul has never been so delightfully and unexpectedly comfortable...
...Zarnegar, and, incongruously, an Asian specialty restaurant, the Silk Route, which offers Malaysian, Singaporean, Indonesian and Thai cuisine. As you'd expect, none of this comes cheap. Standard room rates start at $250 a night. But the Agha Khan Foundation for Economic Development, the Serena's main backer, is betting that guests will happily pay a premium for an oasis of luxury amid the rubble. Says spokesman Aly Mawji: "Mainstream tourism is still years away but we hope the hotel will encourage some more adventurous travelers." Or perhaps that should be less adventurous. After all, a holiday in Kabul...
...read news stories that contain classified material and try to uncover their sources. This may be the toughest spook work. Over the years, the unit, nicknamed "the leak chasers" by some agency hands, has been able to finger only a few talkers. But it has an enthusiastic?and active?backer in Goss. He told TIME in June that he had made dozens of leak-investigation referrals. "Virtually every day I can pick up a paper and find somebody who is an anonymous source," he said. "That is willful. And it seems to me there ought to be a penalty...
...Attorney Tom Campbell, a Bob Dole campaign leader and administration appointee and backer of President George H.W. Bush announced he would run as a fiscal and social conservative. Campbell, a Mormon and self-styled environmentalist who voted for DeLay in 2004, has deep party connections and access to heavyweight fundraisers that make him a credible threat to the embattled former Majority Leader. "Tom DeLay's 'win at all cost' brand of politics has cost us far too much to let it continue," Campbell says on his campaign website...
...most Sunni demands, and his security forces constantly harassed the few Sunni leaders who were willing to negotiate. Administratively, Jafaari's government failed on every front-security, the economy, jobs, infrastructure. His only success was in the mending of relations with Iraq's old enemy (and Jafaari's longtime backer) Iran...