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...Sylhet. As Hasina prepared to leave, hand grenades began raining down on the crowd from the rooftops of nearby buildings. While bodyguards surrounded her, Hasina, whose father, mother and three brothers were assassinated in a military coup in 1975, began praying loudly. Her bodyguards swept her into a bulletproof sport-utility wagon and whisked her off to safety as gunfire smashed into the vehicle's sides. "Allah helped me," she told TIME. "He saved...
...like pressing a button that doesn't work anymore." Especially in the socially underprivileged banlieues, where Jewish-Muslim tension is highest, the appeal to shared citizenship is more apt to reap mockery than reverence. "Being a citizen of France used to give everyone a kind of bulletproof vest, but now it's fallen off and we see each other as Jews, Arabs, whatever," Sebban says. Sebban tried Israel in the 1990s; he lasted four years. "It was a big disappointment," he says. He feels that many French Jews who see Israel as the promised land will be equally disappointed. "People...
...kidnapping ring last week, they were attacked with assault rifles; the criminals held off as many as 1,000 officers for five hours. Four cops were wounded. Chang, who ultimately escaped, was last seen forcing a hostage into a getaway car, toting an M-16 and wearing a bulletproof vest...
...been a frustrating experience for men like police colonel Dawood Salman, a 25-year veteran of Baghdad's city force. He recently requested better arms for the Bab al-Sheikh station, where 103 men share five walkie-talkies and none have bulletproof body armor. The American MPs posted as advisers to the station, he says, "laughed at us. They said the guns would be stolen by gangs and used against Americans." Yet he and his men are expected both to crack down on the rampant crime that is terrorizing the city and to face off against insurgents...
...cricket establishment there's respect for Chappell but a feeling he's overstating the issues. His thesis isn't bulletproof. Backyard cricket is less common than it was but it's hardly disappeared. As for coaches bewildering kids with instruction, junior coaching ranks are still filled mostly by players' dads, whose main concern each Saturday is that everyone have a turn. Some boys are quitting cricket because they're not very good at it, but Australian boys have been doing that for more than 150 years. And it has to be expected that some gifted players will fall away later...