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...Most crucially, the mood in the Kashmir valley, the cradle of the insurgency, has changed. Thirteen years of fighting and refusing to participate in elections has achieved precious little, say many former militants. They also complain that what was once an indigenous freedom struggle has been usurped by Pakistani militants whose pan-Islamic ideals and fundamentalism are at odds with this fight for self-rule and with the moderate Sufi Islam of the Valley. The foreigners, Indian intelligence sources claim, number half of the 2,500 militants in the area...
Listening to Ernest-Antoine Seillière complain, you might assume the French left was still in power. Last week Seillière?president of France's main employers' organization?sternly warned the government to re-examine proposals that "serve neither economic growth nor employment." He also denounced the government's hesitancy to roll back job-protection measures and lift overtime limits linked to the 35-hour workweek. Seillière's criticism of France's nominally business-friendly government was remarkable, since he is not only the nation's leading lobbyist of market liberalization, but also...
Pakistan adopted stoning when military dictator Zia ul-Haq introduced shari'a in 1979. While there are no confirmed cases of the punishment's being carried out, Pakistani women complain that rape victims are routinely charged with adultery, sentenced to death and then left to languish in jail. The penalty is newest in sub-Saharan Africa, where it has been introduced in Sudan and Somalia over the past decade, though in practice it is rarely used. In Nigeria, the introduction of shari'a is as much about politics as ideology. Worried that power was slipping to southern Christians, the northern...
...price won't budge. Securities analysts are worried that Lauren relies too heavily on sales in U.S. department stores, which are losing market share. The analysts see Ralph Lauren and Polo as mature brands, incapable of the growth Wall Street had got used to in the late 1990s. They complain that Lauren, the CEO, won't communicate directly with them, leaving that to the company's financial officers. Roger Farah, Polo Ralph Lauren's president, responds that Lauren's time is better spent working in the design studio...
...frail, white-haired founder, John Rigas, and two of his sons as if they were armed and dangerous, FBI agents gave former WorldCom executives Scott Sullivan and David Myers the same star treatment, parading the handcuffed quarry in an early-morning perp walk and prompting Sullivan's lawyer to complain about "the unfair taint of the current political climate...