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...Shujan has offered Bangladesh's commission help "but they do not want to be helped." Ahmad also says that when the project first started a year ago, he got offers of aid from large foreign donors, but turned them all down. "This is our problem," the economist turned corruption-buster told me. "We have to deal with it ourselves...
...Israeli military is strengthening its border defenses and trying to figure out how to crush a guerrilla enemy that fires rockets from deep underground and uses villages and towns as a combat shield. The Israeli air force is retooling its planes for new, U.S.-made 600-pound 'bunker-buster' bombs. Israel also found out that its vaunted Merkava tanks were vulnerable to missile attack, and experts are now experimenting with a new radar device that tracks and shoots incoming projectiles in mid-air. And the Israelis are keeping an eye out for goat-herders and donkeys loaded with suspicious objects...
Last Friday, while bargain hunters nationwide trampled each other to get their hands on early-bird sales, Harvard Square greeted a much calmer “Black Friday.” From Maine to California, customers fought to get their hands on door buster deals for the latest gadgets, according to Joel Corbett, a manager at the RadioShack in Harvard Square. Some retailers even had to limit the number of shoppers entering a store at one time, he added. But in Harvard Square, the void of students with their parents’ credit cards and lack of adequate parking spaces...
...spiraling divorce rate has presented opportunities for China's entrepreneurial classes. The number of divorce lawyers in the city has quintupled in the past five years. Detective agencies specializing in marital investigations are proliferating. Zhang Kaidong, the self-dubbed "Mistress Buster," employs former policemen, journalists, athletes and bodyguards for his three-year-old private-eye firm in Shanghai. Much of his business involves investigating assets for women who worry that their soon-to-be ex-husbands will lowball their savings in divorce court. "Before, women wouldn't fight for their share because they were so embarrassed about divorce," he says...
According to a top Israeli intelligence official, the Pentagon in 2002 offered to supply Israel with bunker-buster bombs capable of punching deep into an enemy's underground defenses, but Israel's air force chief, Lieut. General Dan Halutz, rejected Washington's offer, noting that his country had its own superb weaponry, thank you very much. Four years later, Halutz is now Israel's chief of staff in charge of this summer's air, sea and land strikes against Lebanon. Early on in the monthlong conflict, Israeli intelligence determined that most of Hizballah's rockets were being fired from launchers...