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...remorseful because Muslims became victims. The ones who I targeted were Americans. Now I have to be accountable." Mohammed Rais, suspected Islamic militant, on trial for his alleged involvement in last August's bombing at Jakarta's JW Marriott hotel. Eleven of the 12 who died were Indonesian...
...Eleven long years ago, a film entitled Groundhog Day debuted in theaters starring Bill Murray as Phil Connors—a man who was forced to live the same day over and over again...
...status, India's maharajas knew they were just paid-up domestic help for the British, as one anecdote tellingly reveals: when he took the British viceroy of India out on tiger hunts, the maharaja of Gwalior measured the animals shot by his guest "with a special tape that had eleven inches to a foot," so that the Englishman would never suffer the ignominy of having bagged the smaller tiger...
...Grease, grease, grease. First a coat of lanolin ... then a coat of heavy grease ... applied to the strong stumpy body ... [She] splashed through the breakers at Cape Gris Nez [France] ... She swam the first four miles in three hours ... [After] she had been swimming for eleven hours, the water blackened fast. a squally rain whipped the broken seas that, running out with the tide, slapped her in the face ... For two hours the current would run against her ... She was no nearer the shore. For two hours, with truncheon legs that never stopped kicking, with failing arms that beat...
...happen. In December, two attempts were made on the life of Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf; the attack on Christmas Day was so close that God must have been on the side of the general. Pakistan's government blamed Kashmir militants once supported by Musharraf, now aggrieved by his neglect. Eleven days later the SAARC meeting began in Islamabad, and the initial signals were tentative at best. When Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee arrived, his Pakistani counterpart, Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali, tried to greet him with a hug. Vajpayee smiled cordially but took a step back. When Vajpayee...