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...Kabul. "That's where my focus is now," he says. When he formally takes charge there on Dec. 22, he will find his 30-member Cabinet assailed by regional warlords who were elbowed out in Bonn. Top of the list: Uzbek leader Abdul Rashid Dostum, who controls a big chunk of northern Afghanistan and who has already announced that the Uzbeks will boycott Karzai's government. Dostum is angry that the three most important government portfolios--Defense, Interior and Foreign Affairs--went to his Tajik rivals within the Northern Alliance. Another potential spoiler is Rabbani, the Alliance leader...
...Another chunk of Hamas' money comes from Muslim charities in the West, including the U.S. and Britain. The Holy Land Foundation, the largest Muslim charity in America, has been a notable donor, according to U.S. officials who seized the organization's assets last week (see box). Hamas' popular appeal, especially strong among women, owes much to the payouts and services it brings to suffering Palestinians. The charitable side of Hamas is its greatest strength and its best cover. About 60% of the budget goes to dawah, the legitimate network of schools, mosques, orphanages, clinics, youth clubs, athletic teams and libraries...
...that did not stop the airline's well-connected executives from asking the Department of Transportation for a chunk of the $15 billion airline-bailout package passed by Congress. The DOT, with encouragement from North Carolina politicians, graciously complied and cut a check for a cool, taxpayer-funded $10.8 million on Nov. 30. Industry analysts were surprised by the Midway bailout. "This sets a new and dysfunctional precedent in airline economics," says Richard Aboulafia of the Teal Group. Aviation Daily editor Michael Miller called the move "a great public-works project for the state of North Carolina." Midway Airlines...
...esque position on China. If the mainlander element of the KMT proves stubborn, Chen hinted that between 20 and 30 members of the party are ready to act unilaterally, perhaps even defecting to the DPP. While that might be an exaggeration, many analysts believe that a significant chunk of the KMT harbors similar sentiments and that this could, at a minimum, portend a change of leadership and a major rethink of the party's policy toward Beijing. This would make the KMT even more like Chen Shui-bian's DPP, and leave the mainland, suddenly, without a Taiwan counterpart advocating...
...that lovely money, he already has plans for the first chunk: "Pianists make a lot of noise, and one of the things this grant will make possible is for me to get a soundproof studio, so I can learn new works and improve my playing without my neighbors hearing the preparatory stages...