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...Army and state police have largely put down the movement through force and through a strategy of persuading militants, often through their families, to surrender, re-enter "the mainstream" and accept financial assistance. Peace talks with ULFA broke down in 2006, and two battalions of the group have refused to surrender, setting up bases in neighboring Bangladesh and in Burma, intelligence officials say. P.K. Mishra, inspector general of the Border Security Force for the Assam & Meghalaya frontier, who spoke to TIME from his headquarters in the city, says he thinks the blasts are the work of the two ULFA battalions...
...deja vu all over again.Having been the football beat writer for the past three years, I’ve pretty much seen it all. From the gut-wrenching 22-13 loss two years ago at Penn when Clifton Dawson ’07 broke the Ivy League’s all-time rushing record to last year’s 37-6 drubbing of Yale to run the table and regain the Ivy title, no one game has been exactly alike.And yet, just a few minutes into the game last Saturday, I found myself wondering if my second trip...
...made six trips since joining the Democratic ticket. In a recent national Pew Research Center poll, 60% of those surveyed said they had a favorable view of Biden, compared with 44% who felt that way about Palin. And that was before a civil war of anonymous quotes broke out within the McCain-Palin operation, with Palin's allies saying she is frustrated enough to "go rogue" against her handlers and McCain's calling his running mate a "diva...
...what about the books that hit stores just before the financial crisis broke? "If the book is already out, you might have to market it a different way," says Weisser. That's the case for Paul B. Carroll and Chunka Mui, whose Billion Dollar Lessons, which chronicles the biggest business failures in the past 20 years, came out in September, right before Wall Street firms started collapsing. "They're seeing common threads of what got these companies into trouble, so they are applying what they know to the news headlines," says Weisser. Similarly, David Smick's book The World...
...Stevens' image problems did not, however, begin with the trial. Allegations of his friends and relatives benefiting from federal largesse have circulated in Alaska for years. While his trial was underway, a story broke about $2.7 million in federal funding that Stevens directed to be used to pave a rural road in his town that leads to his favorite restaurant - a restaurant owned by a longtime friend and campaign contributor...