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...rooftop beside the spires of Omar's Arabian rococo mosque. The commandos are here to protect the other new tenant of Omar's house: Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan's new prime minister. With wrap-around shades, M-16 rifles, lap-tops, and their MRE's full of peanut butter, the commandos are a curiosity for Karzai's many visitors and well-wishers. These are turbaned tribal elders who gather in the old Taliban's war council room, sitting cross-legged and fingering their prayer beads in a gas lantern's blue light. Some of them greet Karzai with a good Pashtun...
...Neither of them are experienced in the bread and butter of council work like lobbying for later party hours. That’s something Paul has excelled at and they haven’t experienced...
...football, Merchant’s bread-and-butter was the option. On the basketball court at Harvard, he provides much of the same—options. Gifted with the court sense of a Prasse-Freeman, the jump shot of a Harvey and the defensive instincts of a Gellert, Merchant can spell any one of them at any time...
Debra P. Hunter was an associate editor of FM last spring. In addition to her reign as half of Quincy House’s ultimate power couple, Deb also enjoys meditation, hip-hop booty-shaking, big football players, carrots, peanut butter and raisins. Her future will be filled with fan-mail...
...director Robert Mueller shook up the FBI today with the bureau's most dramatic reorganization since the post-Watergate reforms. In recognition of the new threats facing the U.S., counter-espionage, the bureau's bread and butter during the Cold War, has received an effective demotion. Dale Watson, who has been in charge of counter-terrorism, will move up to executive assistant director, supervising both C/T and counter-intelligence functions. Also, some resources are expected to be shifted from counter-intelligence to the war on terrorism...