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...alone the suffocating burqas—remain the exception. It is a society where, despite all the constraints endemic to poor, conservative cultures, women pilot 747s, run major corporations and become lawyers, judges and politicians. It is an overwhelmingly Muslim land (98 percent) where minorities still become cabinet ministers, supreme court justices and Nobel Prize winners. All this does not take away from the vast discrimination and injustice that exists, but the picture is far more complex than CNN reports would have you believe. The important reality is that for every militant or militant sympathizer, there are 20 Pakistanis...
...agreement on Israel that Israel does not want." Yet, Sharon remains strategically paralyzed. The international and domestic pressures that prevent him from launching a war to destroy Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority are mounting, but his orientation remains to seek a military victory before any sort of political process. Cabinet hawks demand that the military's full might be unleashed on the Palestinian territories. Doves insist that the only way to restore Israel's security is to seek a peace agreement that largely extricates it from the West Bank and Gaza. But Sharon finds himself in the bloody limbo between...
...that he stayed in his bunker on al-Irsal Street, defiantly working through the attacks and refusing pleas from his friends to move to another location in Ramallah. "He doesn't want to be seen running from the Israelis," a senior adviser told TIME. But privately, Arafat and his cabinet took "preventive measures" to save themselves. And Arafat, the aide says, "feels depressed and nervous...
...tune military band--the real power lies elsewhere. Defense Minister Mohammed Qasim Fahim and Interior Minister Younus Qanooni both arrive for memorial prayers with a retinue of armed warriors. The assorted dignitaries remove their shoes to enter the local mosque. Karzai later notes with black humor that a Cabinet member's shoes were stolen. It's a tough crowd...
...tells the palace chef to dish up simple food for his retinue. "Do you know what little the people have to eat out there?" Karzai says to his chef. His office has only a single computer and a fax machine. The United Nations gave Karzai and his Cabinet officials their cell phones, and some of his ministers keep punching the wrong buttons...