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...triumphs. There was to be no fairy-tale finish. After more than a year of assorted ailments and injuries during which he had gone winless, Silent Witness limped in ninth of 10 runners whom he would have pulverized in his prime. The bleak result didn't diminish the ardor for the mahogany 7-year-old. Upon trotting back to the unsaddling yard, Silent Witness was given an emotional reception of cheers and tears. Railbirds, decked in owner Archie da Silva's green and black, waved Silent Witness flags and posters. Da Silva, a hard-headed Hong Kong businessman, wept. Trainer...
...drugs with his arrest. But some officials in Kabul and Washington now quietly wonder whether giving him a shot at what he said he could deliver--the allegiance of his tribe--might have been the smarter option. The government has not said that his arrest will diminish the heroin trade in Afghanistan. Indeed, the war against drugs and the war against the Taliban have to be seen as a single conflict--not separate objectives. "All of a piece," says a senior Western diplomat. "You can't separate narcotics from security from governance...
...Dear Leader's firstborn son, Jong Nam was once considered his father's probable successor. But after the 2001 Disney debacle, when he was stopped at Narita International Airport with a forged Dominican passport and then deported to China, Jong Nam has apparently fallen from favor. That didn't diminish the interest of the media, especially in Japan. "North Korea is a No. 1 concern for us," says Tsuyoshi Ikeda, a news director for Nippon Television, puffing a cigarette in the Mandarin's lobby. "So it's important that we watch them...
...eldest son, Jong Nam was once considered his father's likely successor. But after the 2001 Disney debacle, when he was stopped at Narita Airport with a forged Dominican Republic passport and then deported to China, Pyongyang watchers say Jong Nam has fallen from favor. But that didn't diminish the interest of the media, especially in Japan...
...views. In Washington, Rubin shot back at critics of free trade. “Unless the American people believe that trade liberalization and market-based economics more generally are going to benefit them, support for those policies which I think are central to a strong economy will continue to diminish,” Rubin said. Lawrence cast the hearing as one that amplified the Democrats’ free-trade wing. “Clearly, the purpose here, I think, is to try to mobilize the Democrats to sustain some support for free trade.” But despite their internal...