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That left Abdul Qadir. As the Taliban collapsed, the former warlord returned to the family power base around the eastern city of Jalalabad. He took possession of property the Taliban had used as an ammunition dump: three buildings full of rocket-propelled grenades, mortars, tank shells and "enough AK-47 cartridges to last for 10 years," as one of his fighters told a TIME correspondent late last year. The ammo was enough to make Qadir, already rich from the opium trade, a power to be reckoned with not only in Jalalabad (where two other warlords laid claims to power...
Stewart has explained that she had given her stockbroker advance instructions to dump ImClone if it fell below $60 a share. At first, the broker, Peter Bacanovic, 40, and his assistant, Douglas Faneuil, 26, backed Stewart's story, investigators say. But Faneuil is now telling his bosses at Merrill Lynch that Bacanovic pressured him to back up Stewart's account...
...More significant is Bush's call for a new Palestinian leadership. Let's stipulate that Yasser Arafat has been disastrous for the Palestinians. Why should anyone think Bush's speech makes it more likely they will now dump him? Since the time of Caesar Augustus, imperial powers have tried to find local chiefs they can do business with. It never works; just because you sign a treaty with Red Cloud, it doesn't mean Sitting Bull stays on the reservation. National-liberation movements (and Palestinians believe they are engaged in one) are quite happy, thank you very much, to choose...
...elegant loft in lower Manhattan at 6 a.m. and, after allowing the pajama-clad Waksal to change into street clothes, hauled him off to court in handcuffs. The central charge was that Waksal had tried to sell $5 million in ImClone shares and tipped two family members to dump their stock too, after he learned--before the news was made public--that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) refused to review Erbitux's application...
...December poll (Kim is constitutionally barred from running again). Party members are also alarmed about the shellacking the MDP got in local elections in early June. The smart money in Seoul says if Roh can't work some magic in by-elections scheduled for Aug. 8, the MDP could dump him and try to woo Chung...