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...system will require Aziz to overcome several important challenges. Above all, Aziz must make a lasting peace with India, even at the cost of painful compromises. Without such a peace, Pakistan will always be ruled, in one form or another, by men in uniform, and the mud-brick curtain we have erected to our east will continue to deny us our largest potential market and source of human and cultural exchange...
GYMNASTICS: The U.S. team's Iron Curtain secrets...
...READY Heinz Kerry peeks from behind a curtain as her husband speaks. With vice-presidential contender John Edwards and his family behind her, she awaits her cue to join Kerry onstage...
...elder two girls knew the show by heart. As the curtain rose slightly, revealing three dozen pairs of shapely legs and happy feet, Diana whispered to Mary, ?Julian Marsh is putting on a show!? - the play?s first line. As each number came up, the girls silently mouthed the lyrics and moved subtly in their seats, miming the actors? gestures. At intermission, Diana strode into the aisle and did an expert tap routine - no small accomplishment, considering that she was barefoot. The theatergoers applauded her as vigorously as Mary and I had at home. A star was born...
...curtain is rising this summer on Rodriguez's most interesting act yet: a five-year, $37 billion PDVSA plan to revive and expand oil production while budgeting almost $2 billion a year for antipoverty initiatives ranging from potable-water to literacy projects. Making PDVSA (called Pedevesa) an oil firm cum development agency will be daunting, even with crude prices hovering near $40 a bbl. Venezuela's oil industry has been waylaid by political turmoil, including a reckless near shutdown by anti-Chavez managers and other employees at PDVSA in 2002 and 2003, intended to paralyze the industry and force Chavez...