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...final weeks of 2001, the entire subcontinent became an unexploded bomb. The antagonistic neighbors geared up their war machines to a level not seen in 30 years. Colossus India ranged tanks and troops in strike formations along the border, deployed warships in the Arabian Sea and moved medium-range missiles--capable of carrying nuclear warheads--closer to Pakistan. A plan was publicized to pull camouflage tarps over the stately Taj Mahal to protect it from air raids. Vulnerable Pakistan moved troops and hardware from its border with Afghanistan, where they were supposed to be stopping fleeing al-Qaeda and Taliban...
...politics lie behind that stroke; his party is facing an important state election, and the hard line he has adopted may help at the polls. But Vajpayee also owns a taste for boldness that he has demonstrated before. In 1998 he was the Prime Minister who ordered the atom-bomb tests that made India (and subsequently Pakistan, which responded in kind) an official member of the nuclear club...
...Azhar joined hands with a hard-line Sunni sectarian group and broke away from Harkat-ul-Mujahideen to found the even more fanatical Jaish-e-Muhammad. His new group was the first to favor suicide attacks in India. It has been responsible for grenade and car-bomb assaults on civilian targets, and took responsibility for a devastating bomb blast at the state legislature in Indian-administered Kashmir last October...
...that come from having been in the most successful show of the past decade. The expectations have led to articles about the Seinfeld Curse--which has been blamed for the quick demise of both The Michael Richards Show in the fall 2000 season and this season's Jason Alexander bomb, Bob Patterson. But 0 for 2 in the world of sitcoms is actually about right. The vast majority of shows don't make it past one season. Louis-Dreyfus attributes that to the difficulty of writing for the medium. "The thing about comedy is that you can't fake...
MIDDLE EAST Hopeful Signs Despite predictions that nothing would change, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's call for an end to the suicide bomb attacks and terrorist activities against Israelis has reduced violence in the region to its lowest level in 15 months. Just one Israeli has died since Arafat's Dec. 16 speech. In that time 20 Palestinians have been killed. Israel began to withdraw forces that had occupied parts of the West Bank ahead of American peace negotiator Anthony Zinni's second attempt to bring the two sides together...