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There's another unanswered question. If Turki and Mir were cutting deals with bin Laden, were they acting at the behest of their governments or on their own? Posner avoids any direct statement, but the book implies that they were doing official, if covert, business. In the past, Turki has admitted--to TIME in November 2001, among others--attending meetings in '96 and '98 but insisted they were efforts to persuade Sudan and Afghanistan to hand over bin Laden. The case against Pakistan is cloudier. It is well known that Islamist elements in the ISI were assisting the Taliban under...
...comedy in its sixth month on the West End, is another childish dimwit, who wears red cowboy pajamas and mangles the names of his enemies ("Saddama bin Laden"). Creator Justin Butcher says the play grew out of his outrage at the way Britain was "sleepwalking into war at the behest of the Administration in Washington." Unfortunately, the topical jokes soon give way to a long, obsessively detailed parody of Dr. Strangelove, with a mad general ordering a nuclear strike against the Arab world. Only Peter Sellers groupies need stick around...
...does Dell do it? Direct sales. Back in 1994, largely at the behest of Rollins, then a consultant at Bain & Co., Dell jettisoned sales through retailers. In 2001, when much of the tech world was still in denial, Rollins slashed 5,700 jobs while stepping into his current role as COO. "We saw the downturn coming," says Rollins. "Because of our direct-sales model, we were talking to suppliers and customers daily." Next step: Dell got aggressive on the supply chain, cutting inventory from seven days to three and building to order only. The company slashed prices at home, then...
...Bush Administration, recognizing that Abbas has no independent political base among Palestinians, is sympathetic to the need to build up his standing, and has, at Abbas's behest, urged Israel to cease construction of a security fence that will function as a de facto border penning the Palestinians into about half of the West Bank - a request Israel firmly rebuffed. But pressing the Israelis to release men convicted for killing Israelis won't be easy, with an election season looming. Even if that's what Washington concluded was needed to keep Abbas intact. Because even more importantly, the Bush administration...
...Michigan, and eventually coaxes his parents to let him visit her. The entire middle section of the book details this brief visit. Thompson puts a tremendous amount of work into depicting Raina's family life. Her parents are in the midst of a divorce at her mother's behest. Exhausted and possibly addicted to pills, she leaves the care of her two adopted, mentally disabled adult children mostly in Raina's hands. It's a testament to Thompson's intelligence as a storyteller that this sub-portrait becomes as fascinating as the main story. Raina's parent's difficulties have...