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...Food Program. The hardest hit are poor black Zimbabweans, the very people Mugabe professes to be helping. The opposition party Movement for Democratic Change (M.D.C.) and U.N. insiders accuse Mugabe's Zimbabwe African National Union- Patriotic Front (Z.A.N.U.-P.F.) of using food as a political weapon--giving it to card-carrying Z.A.N.U.-P.F. supporters and denying it to M.D.C. members. "If you cannot prove you are a member of Z.A.N.U.-P.F., you are a second-class citizen," says M.D.C. spokesman Renson Gasela. The government denies this...
...officer took a report of a stolen credit card at the Malkin Athletic Center...
...REVISIT YOUR CREDIT CARDS. Even nose-bleed rates have come down. Best deal: Pulaski Bank (800-980-2265) offers a Visa that charges annual interest of 5.5%. Pulaski also gives six months at no interest on transferred credit-card balances...
...Afghanistan, every Westerner is a spy until proved otherwise. I remember approaching an Afghan intelligence general for an interview. He fingered my business card, then turned to my translator and said, 'I haven't decided who he is yet. I'll watch him and make inquiries. Then I'll decide whether to talk.' Sensitive questions can provoke accusations of espionage. After I made a couple of inquiries, another Afghan intelligence operative accosted me, saying, 'The cia asked the same questions. Which agency do you work for?' Sometimes a rendezvous with an Afghan spook means sneaking into his house so that...
...digit number, triggered vehement protests throughout the country by those who fear Big Government is getting an efficient tool to invade their privacy. Some local prefectures refused to go along: Yokohama, the country's second-largest city, made participation voluntary, while three other municipalities opted out. Similar ID-card networks are being introduced in Malaysia and Hong Kong with little public outcry. But a survey by the Asahi Shimbun newspaper found that 86% of Japanese were concerned personal information would be misused. For now, the system only allows retrieval of basic information like addresses, but critics say a centralized network...