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...five months pregnant, was abducted in front of a bakery popular with foreigners; witnesses say they heard gunshots and saw the woman bundled into a blue Toyota Corolla by unidentified armed men. She is the first foreigner to be abducted in Kabul since Italian aid worker Clementina Cantoni was seized in front of her compound in May of 2005. Cantoni was eventually released unharmed 24 days later; it is still unknown if a ransom was paid. Meier may not be so lucky. One of the German engineers was shot within a few days of his abduction, and while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Kidnappers of Kabul | 8/18/2007 | See Source »

...accountable to the democratically elected Parliament. The American presidential system did not undergo this transition and still has this curious feature—which has proven to work well only in the U.S.—that the executive power may find itself opposed by the legislature. DAVIDE W. CANTONI Cambridge, Mass. February 11, 2006 The writer is a student in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences...

Author: By Davide W. Cantoni, | Title: History of No-Confidence Vote Mischaracterized | 2/17/2006 | See Source »

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