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...Given a "with us or against us" ultimatum by the Bush administration last fall, Musharraf sided with the U.S. and embarked on a risky campaign to save his country from its two-decade drift towards Islamic extremism and economic collapse. He offered the U.S. military bases and intelligence support to wage war on the Taliban and stared down the resulting domestic Islamist backlash. Recognizing that the rot of extremism ran to the highest levels of his military and intelligence services, he risked alienating the institutions that had brought him to power by purging a number of Taliban supporters from...
...feigns secrecy regarding what he did before dealing books and training van drivers but he is actually forthcoming about his past pursuits. He claims some role in the invention of the first Westinghouse continuous-reading bore hole drift probe created—specialized equipment that keeps oil drills from straying too far from their marks...
...wine country, it is home to world-renowned labels such as Tyrrell's, Brokenwood, McWilliam's, McGuigan and numerous boutique wines not yet discovered by international connoisseurs. Below us, vineyards spread like lava far into the distance. We begin to descend, brushing the tops of trees as we drift toward our paddock, 15 km from where we started. "Take your landing positions," says our commander, "and hold on tight...
...self-consciously retro album cover for Dressy Bessy’s Sound Go Round looks like it came out of your Mom’s record collection, and the band itself seems to want to drift back to an easier, earlier time. The shot of them in the liner notes enjoying a park in autumn recalls Simon and Garfunkel, and the mounted police in the background seem ready to bust up those kids and that infernal hippy music. Unfortunately, the band with the rhyming name lacks the musical wherewithal to back up their allusions. Their songs drift towards the repetitive...
...General Musharraf has launched a crackdown on militant Islamic groups in order to save Pakistan from its drift to extremism. How have ordinary Pakistanis responded...