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...foreigners in exchange for information." So success may depend largely on Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency, or ISI, a tough outfit that has racked up a formidable reputation as a state within a state. With more than 40,000 officers and staff whose headquarters are in a drab military compound in Islamabad, the ISI puts tentacles deep into Afghanistan through thousands of Pashtu-speaking Pakistanis and hundreds of free-lance Afghan spies lured with money and sanctuary for their families. As a godfather to the Taliban, which it has financed, supplied, advised and fought alongside, the ISI has intimate...
...elder brother, lives about half-an-hour's drive?and an entire world?away. At his apartment in the Karachi Engineering University's staff colony, a simple, sober message printed in Arabic and English greets visitors at the front door: ALLAH IS THE BEST PROVIDER OF ALL. Inside, the drab walls are devoid of decoration, bare but for a calendar. There is no television on the TV stand, but in its place sits a Koran wrapped lovingly in an embroidered shawl. The women are sequestered, and a peaceful silence prevails...
...country sitting on one of the world's fuel tanks. In just over a generation, the area has grown from barren desert to lurid long-haul stopover to modern metropolis. Dubai used to be famous only for funneling bleary-eyed passengers through endless duty-free malls, a drab modern-day souk experience only slightly enlivened by some sensational bargains. But now, offering beaches with year-round sunshine, million-dollar horse races (see Detour) and the world's tallest hotel (see Short Cuts), Dubai is a destination in its own right...
...grunge movement originated in Seattle when it was still a drab, frustrated port city and not a hotbed of technological advancement. Spawned from the do-it-yourself indie scene—dominated at the time by riot grrls, anti-establishment students and angry white Gen-Xers—grunge was solidified as a genre by dirty slackers Mudhoney and the magnetic caterwaul of Soundgarden. In interviews, Cobain presented himself as the posterboy for grunge: Filthy, seemingly apathetic, and disillusioned with society, using music as a respite untainted by society’s stamp of approval. Cobain would claim in interviews...
...Maybe it?s just the lack of a recovery that?s wearing everybody out," investment strategist Frank Gertz says quotably in this weeks? TIME, and TSTW couldn?t agree more - especially when it comes to himself. Here?s another take, albeit an unintentionally metaphorical one, on the drab and seemingly endless status quo, courtesy of the NYT?s Buster Olney in Monday?s New York Times sports section (metaphor-wrecking phrases excised...