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...intelligence infrastructure that Patil leaves behind is a hornet's nest of competing interests and gaps in coordination. There were warnings earlier this fall based on telephone intercepts of an attack targeting the city, originating in Pakistan and using a sea route from Karachi, the same route used by those who smuggled explosives into the city before the 1993 Mumbai blasts. That intelligence was passed on from the foreign-intelligence bureau to the domestic-intelligence bureau and then, according to procedure, to the state police. But there was no follow-up with the local Mumbai police, who would have been...
Senior captain Verdi DiSesa had a much more competitive match earlier in the evening finishing off Dartmouth No. 2 Nick Sisodia in four games...
...There is one primary difference between the current crop of crooked executives and those of Kozlowski’s “generation.” The earlier set, today imprisoned, stole money out of largely stable companies for their own personal use. Today’s top guns learned from their example, and siphoned their massive cuts, through bonuses and other forms of compensation, out of firms that turned out to be poorly-managed, colossal houses of cards, ready to collapse at any moment. Doesn’t the latter class of actions beg for convictions and new sentences...
...said still under curfew on Saturday, describing what was a harrowing experience for a country and for Harvard students living in Mumbai.Earlier Wednesday evening, on his way to a club with a friend, Singh walked by the Café Leopold, and heard that there been shooting there 30 seconds earlier. “We were crossing by when that happened,” he said. “We ignored it and thought it was a drug deal gone foul.”Singh and his friend thought the firing was normal gang or street violence, but when they heard...
...General Ashfaq Kiyani, on one side, and Zardari and his prime minister, on the other, - and said a more junior official would be sent instead. To date, no one has gone. So nobody believes the ISI takes its orders from the civilian government. In fact, when the government tried earlier this year to put the ISI under the control of the Interior Ministry, it was quickly sent packing...