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...cities (including New York last week, Philadelphia and Detroit this), is a smash. Biggest thing since the Who tour, you hear; biggest thing since the Rolling Stones. Alas, these fossils of Jurassic Rock are the merest nostalgia items; a fan wants to see them before they break up or crack up. Madonna sets herself the sterner challenge of being forever new, pertinent, shocking. But it's tough to stay on top by spanking somebody's bottom. In her recent work, Madonna has pursued dominatrix fantasies until she may be the only one getting off on them. She is in danger...
...suicide bombings in Pakistan. Al-Qaeda is taking full advantage of the weakness of Pakistan's new government to recruit, train and arm more jihadis. This will boost its chances of hitting targets in the U.S. or Europe. Western nations must pressure and help the Pakistani government to crack down on al-Qaeda and the Taliban, its identical twin. The disease they represent must not be allowed to flourish, or it will infect the whole world. Iftikhar Qureshi, Sydney...
Finally, we need a stronger and sustained partnership between Afghanistan, Pakistan and NATO to secure the border, to take out terrorist camps and to crack down on cross-border insurgents. We should condition some assistance to Pakistan on their action to take the fight to the terrorists within their borders. And if we have actionable intelligence about high-level al-Qaeda targets, we must act if Pakistan will not or cannot...
...Birkenfeld is caught up in the latest in a series of efforts by the feds to crack down on wealthy tax cheats and the bankers, accountants and lawyers who help - and in fact, often convince - them to set up offshore accounts not properly reported to the IRS. (It is legal to have an offshore account; hiding it is the no-no.) On Thursday the Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations will hold a hearing on how banks in offshore tax havens may be helping Americans evade taxes. The hearing adds momentum to efforts already under...
...Indiana. A design flaw made the French-Italian plane become violently uncontrollable in cold weather. Pilots and aeronautical engineers knew what the problem was: the de-icing boots on the ATR wings were not big enough. Those are the rubber sleeves on each wing that can be expanded to crack sheets of ice. But the FAA determined that lengthening the boot would cost too much money. It took three plane crashes, the third one scattering human remains and debris over eight acres of Indiana farmland on Halloween, before the FAA ordered extension of the deicing boot and limits...