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...maestros a chance to recharge their creative batteries in a sylvan setting. "It's a wonderful, tranquil place to make music," gushes Kissin. "For Verbier, I drop everything," agrees violinist Chang. So powerful is the attraction, the performers waive their usual fees - an artist of Chang's wattage can command upward of €20,000 for a single performance - and settle for what amounts to an expenses-paid working holiday. Not even their agents are complaining. Stephen Wright, managing director of IMG Artists U.K., says, "Verbier has an atmosphere of music making as it should be. Artists need that...
...able to lead Britain into a preemptive war alongside the U.S. A majority of Britons tell pollsters that they simply don't trust their prime minister in the wake of the Iraq campaign. He's in no immediate danger of losing his job; his Labor party is in unassailable command of the British legislature, and has no credible challenger right now. But Blair surely remembers the fate of Margaret Thatcher, who was forced to hand over the leadership role to John Major when the British electorate and her own party fell out of love with...
...former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia about 30, Kazakhstan 25, and so on. The Pentagon had hoped India would would supply 17,000 of its own troops to lead a third division, but India has declined, joining France and Germany in insisting that their forces could serve only under UN command and mandate. And given the fact that U.S. relations with Turkey are at a 50-year low in the wake of the war - particularly following the arrest by U.S. forces of ten Turkish commandos in northern Iraq ten days ago - the Pentagon is having to face the reality that many...
...believes that al-Qaeda recruiters are aggressively enrolling youths like the Jabarahs, with U.S., Canadian or Western European passports and good command of the English language and the North American interior. While the network had always tried to recruit people with U.S. and other Western passports, FBI counter-terrorism chief Larry Mefford recently revealed that al-Qaeda was "refocusing its efforts" to sign on disaffected Americans, green-card holders and Muslims who had spent time in the U.S. as students or visitors who had a good command of English and a working knowledge of American society and culture. This effort...
...Dandani had fought against U.S. forces inside Afghanistan until the fall of the Taliban. He was close to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the organizer of the 9/11 attacks currently in U.S. custody. After his return to Saudi Arabia, officials say, al-Dandani had worked under senior Qaeda commanders Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri and Walid Ba 'Attash, both Saudis, who had planned the October 2000 attack on the USS Cole in Yemen. Al-Dandani took over the Persian Gulf command after al-Nashiri and Ba 'Attash were captured in separate incidents, say U.S. officials...