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...report on Bangladesh caused some readers to argue that government efforts to combat militant Islam are belated at best, while others credited entrepreneurs for the country's turnaround...
...Provoking Whom? I question the premise of your report on Taiwan's politics, "Combat Fatigue" [April 3]. It is unfair to say that President Chen Shui-bian is taking an overly provocative stance toward China and that the U.S. has been irritated by Chen's compulsion to upset the status quo. The fact is, China has missiles aimed at Taiwan, and last year it passed an anti-secession law aimed at preventing Taiwanese independence. So which side is shaking up the status quo? Harn Ming-Rong Kaohsiung, Taiwan...
...Marwan and his cell arrived in the afternoon of the first day's fighting, he says, but there was a lull while they waited for a counterattack that night. His job was to help defend the Abu Hanifa mosque, he says, and when combat resumed the next morning that's what he did. "We heard they were coming," he says of the Iraqi troops, "so we took our positions and started shooting at them from near the mosque. We used PKC [machine guns], RPGs, grenades, everything." The men of the 101st Airborne's MiTT have no reason to doubt...
Whatever the cause of all the combat, it is groups such as Club Ophelia that are making the peace. Dellasega founded the clubs in 2002 after the publication of her first book, Surviving Ophelia, about the struggles girls face growing up. One of the principles behind the groups is that girls tend to be tenacious about their anger, with resentments continuing to simmer long after the fisticuffs have ended. Most boys, always thought of as brawlers, are raised from birth on the idea of avoiding fights or at least ending them with a handshake. Girls need to learn the same...
Officials in Florida and elsewhere are fed up with such farming façades, which exploit tax breaks that, ironically, were meant to combat sprawl. Idaho in March eliminated its "developer's discount," which benefited nonworking farms. But in South Carolina--where a $7 million, five-acre beachfront lot on upscale Kiawah Island is taxed just $9.60 as timberland--the agricultural commissioner has said "defining what a 'real farm' is can be very difficult...