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...they do a deal (with India on Kashmir), all these groups could presumably go crazy." The militants, moreover, are central to Pakistan's traditional foreign policy of keeping the Kashmir issue alive and urgent, which allows Islamabad to keep the pressure on India. "Pakistan wants to extend the olive branch and also carry a gun," says Rifaat Hussain, a defense analyst at Islamabad's Quaid-I-Azam University. "Why should India talk if the situation is normal...
...land once set aside for the exclusive enjoyment of Hawaiian royalty, Burger King now jousts for fast-food supremacy with a branch of the distinctly Japanese fast-food chain Mos Burger. Step inside the latter, and you can sink your teeth into an authentic Tokyo-style teriyaki chiisu bagaa. (That's "cheeseburger" with a Japanese accent.) East and West have collided in Hawaii for centuries, but never have the islands been so welcoming for Asian visitors...
...Date a Hooters Girl?" The promotional literature proudly announces that it is "the only branded dating show in television." To boost sales of the show (sample segments: "Stud or Dud?" "Know Your Hooters") the producers have shipped in a clubload of the identically clad gals from the Vegas branch. In the course of my investigation I chat to several of these girls in their tangerine hotpants and tight white crop-tops. (Tough work, but I can take...
...Ashcroft notes in his 1998 book, Lessons from a Father to His Son, Kings Saul and David were anointed in much the same way. So are England's monarchs. Yet the ad hoc ceremony hints at the kind of enthusiastic, free-wheeling worship that has historically marked Ashcroft's branch of evangelical Christianity. (Some Pentecostals anoint their houses and TVs.) It also happens to be a style his denomination has downplayed as it has moved into the mainstream, a move that no one exemplifies better than Ashcroft...
...fall of 1999, pro-life supporters in Congress were successful in reinstating the gag rule by attaching it to the foreign appropriations bill. It was the first time Congress acted to make such restrictions law, not simply a ruling issued by the Executive Branch. Congress attached the bill as a rider to legislation authorizing payment of U.N. arrears. Much to the delight of anti-abortion activists, Clinton felt compelled to accept it. Just last October, the Clinton administration lifted the gag rule, which affects approximately 430 organizations in more than 50 nations. But in a tight presidential campaign with Senate...