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...hands. Borrowing a page from the cia's proxy war against the Soviets, which used the mujahedin in Afghanistan, the ISI in 1989 began encouraging Islamic-militant outfits inside Pakistan to cross over the mountains and snipe at Indian troops in Kashmir. As a guerrilla tactic, it was brilliant. On any given day, more than 300,000 Indian troops are busy chasing 2,000 Kashmiri and Pakistani militants up and down the Himalayas...
...bull market has been butchered, and now a brilliant new book, Triumph of the Optimists (Princeton), by Elroy Dimson, Paul Marsh and Mike Staunton of London Business School, casts doubt on Siegel's research...
...what was surely the best espionage novel of the '90s, Robert Harris imagined a brilliant mathematician, Tom Jericho (played in the movie adaptation by Dougray Scott), who is driven to a nervous breakdown by a failed love affair with the beauteous Claire (Saffron Burrows). Nevertheless, a shaky Tom must return to work against an urgent deadline: if the Bletchley crowd can't crack the code within a few days, a huge convoy will be wiped...
...Zubaydah, a Palestinian, may have studied the campaign in Israel and urged al-Qaeda cell members to emulate the low-tech, effective suicide bombings. It is almost impossible so far for experts, who hardly trust Abu Zubaydah, to tell how reliable he is. "This s.o.b. may have a brilliant disinformation strategy," says one investigator. What is certain is that U.S. officials will continue to investigate and issue warnings, like the most recent ones, suggesting that Americans be "vigilant." That may not be very useful advice, but, for the time being, it's all there...
...understand the brilliant depth of Guest’s performance, one only needs to watch his face as he observes the Lucy of Beatrice E. Kitzinger ’03. Having lost her family in the war, she speaks only to strangers, obliviously repeating sad invitation. Kitzinger, turning in a fine performance of her own, communicates to a familiar face only after her delusions are spelled out for her; she comments, “We get some pretty crazy people in here, eh?” Throughout the skillfully staged sequence, it is difficult to pay attention to anyone...