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...targets. "The U.S. is going to be applying some pretty awesome military technology," says Steven Simon, assistant director of London's International Institute of Strategic Studies. "The idea is to kick out the legs of the chair underneath the regime." At least initially, say Pentagon officials, the bulk of the Iraqi military would be out of bounds. According to the current game plan, the U.S. invaders would fire on regular Iraqi army troops only if they attacked first. Washington would rather keep Saddam's army intact so it could help hold the country together in a post-Saddam...
...direction' and he invited India to resume talks with Pakistan to defuse hostilities. But India refuses to see Musharraf unless Pakistan stops what New Delhi describes as 'cross-border terrorism.' Neither country has yet specified how many troops it will pull back, but India is expected to keep the bulk of its forces in Kashmir, where Muslim militants, backed by Pakistani religious extremists, are waging a 12-year long insurgency which has cost over 36,000 lives. This drop in hostilities might be momentary. In general elections on Oct. 10, Pakistani religious groups made a strong showing, and if they...
...approach would be for the College to contract out with a professional storage company that could offer secure, insured, off-site storage for a subsidized rate that students could pay per box. This would allow students who are concerned about the perilous nature of Harvard storage to leverage the bulk purchasing power of the College to get a lower price on high quality storage, an option that would surely be exercised by those students who are often too busy with final exams and papers to plan ahead for their summer storage. This measure would undoubtedly alleviate the storage crunch...
...numerical terms, the Taliban has been savaged. The U.S. and its Afghan allies killed at least 5,000 Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters, wounded twice that number and took 7,000 prisoner. The bulk of Taliban conscripts who survived the war shaved, took off their black turbans and faded into the background. At the same time, only four of the top 50 Taliban commanders surrendered or were captured; those four are now held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The Taliban leader, Mullah Mohammed Omar, has not been found, and is most probably hiding in Uruzgan province, shielded by true believers...
...Istanbul's most notable landmarks - and the easiest way to orient yourself - is the Bosporus, the strait that divides the city, the fluid boundary between Europe and Asia. European Istanbul comprises the bulk of the city to the west, while the mostly residential Asian Istanbul is to the east. To get your bearings, take a ferry from the Eminonu docks up the Bosporus, stopping for lunch at one of the fishing villages near the Black Sea, passing a series of sumptuous villas and Ottoman houses along the way. European Istanbul is itself divided by the Golden Horn, an inlet...