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...mail. Outside the cathedral, a dozen protesters held signs that said, MIXED-GENDER PRAYER TODAY, HELLFIRE TOMORROW. One veiled woman voiced an argument common among conservative Muslims everywhere: Restrictions on women are for their protection--and are "signs of respect." Inside the hall, police ejected a man after he burst in, shouting "God save your souls!" The organizers "should be stoned," he said later...
Last week, Southeast Asia's war on terror, usually waged behind the scenes, burst into the open. In the Philippines, 22 alleged Muslim militants, including three top leaders of the Abu Sayyaf group, were killed during the bloody suppression of a prison riot. But offstage developments are just as frightening. TIME has learned that Philippine security forces seized a cache of sophisticated bombs during a mid-February raid on a safe house that police say was maintained by Abu Sayyaf in Manila. Twelve bombs manufactured from C4 plastic explosive were recovered, expertly hidden in items such as toothpaste tubes...
Terror, Visible Last week Southeast Asia's usually hidden war on terror burst into the open. In the Philippines 22 alleged Muslim militants, including three top leaders of the Abu Sayyaf group, were killed during the bloody suppression of a prison riot. But offstage developments are just as frightening. TIME has learned that Philippine security forces seized a cache of sophisticated bombs during a February raid on what police say was an Abu Sayyaf safe house in Manila. Twelve bombs manufactured from C4 plastic explosive were recovered, expertly hidden in items like toothpaste tubes and deodorant bottles. "We call them...
...Budapest dropped by 5.45%, while Bratislava and Warsaw fell by more than 2%. By week's end, the bourses closed up to 9.4% lower. Analysts say standard profit-taking was responsible, but perhaps it was a bubble - inflated by post-accession optimism and rising regional economies - that needed to burst. "I think it was a classic case of overheating the market," says Artur Szeski, an equity analyst at CDM Pekao in Warsaw. "Right now the valuations are coming back to more reasonable levels." Although the region's markets are expected to gain about 5% or 10% over the next three...
...cable networks like FX and ESPN, let alone Showtime and HBO. In an episode of Fox's since-canceled Keen Eddie, three men enlist a hooker to arouse a horse to extract semen from him. The PTC recently protested an episode of NBC's Medium in which the police burst into a bedroom to find a suspect in bed--with a two-week-old corpse...