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...confrontation - but not one civilian was killed by government forces, according to Prosecutor General Rashid Kadyrov. Andijan is still sealed off from the outside world, though, and hundreds of refugees have fled over the border into Kyrgyzstan. A group of diplomats and journalists was allowed to make a brief, tightly controlled visit last week, but they saw little. "There are still lots of troops on the streets," says Abdukadir Sattarov, an Andijan resident. Andijan could be a turning point in the resistance to Karimov's rule. Prominent local businessmen took up arms, and the revolt could also attract the involvement...
...enigma. So does Broken Flowers, though Don need only ask a question or two of a few people he meets to find what he was ostensibly searching for. The mystery and the answer, Jarmusch says, is in Murray's face, whose contours and conundrums are always worth studying. A brief glance upward earns as big a laugh as any Will Ferrell pratfall; a tear welling in his left eye has the impact of a Niagara from some soap opera star. But, here at least, he's not handing out clues to the mystery of character, let alone to the film...
Each morning before dawn, a secret print shop at the CIA's Langley, Va., compound produces a handful of copies of the nation's most closely guarded document, the President's daily brief. The PDB, as it is known, is meant to apprise the President of the latest, most crucial intelligence on threats to the nation's security. But the document, which for years has been produced by the CIA, came under much criticism during the investigations of prewar intelligence on Iraq. Now the PDB is in the midst of its biggest reform ever, as the new Director of National...
...what the President hears. Top FBI officials last week received what one told TIME was a highly unusual call from Negroponte's office, seeking information for an upcoming PDB. It was the first time in at least two years that the FBI was asked to contribute information to the brief, a senior official said. Negroponte has also asked 13 other agencies to submit items for the report...
Currency markets went into a brief spin last week when the website for the Chinese Communist Party mouthpiece People's Daily carried an erroneous story stating that China would soon revalue its currency, the yuan. China's central bank quickly dashed the expectation, saying it has no immediate plans to change the yuan's peg to the U.S. dollar. But the scare was enough to prompt all sorts of questions on the Chinese currency. We oblige with the answers...