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American investigators are trying to persuade Musharraf to let them expand their bin Laden search into the tribal belt, but the Pakistanis have "a different agenda," says a Western diplomat in Islamabad. "The Americans' aim, obviously, is to get the bad guys." The Pakistani strategy is to extend the government's influence in these lawless areas by winning over the local chieftains, a kind of mini--nation building. That's why Musharraf is wary of mishaps like the one in which two U.S. missiles recently strayed inside the Pakistani border and landed a few hundred yards from a tribal militia...
Wright's real challenge will be to expand beyond the nerdy niche of hard-core gamers that currently constitutes his audience and start attracting the mainstream. To do that, he'll have to overcome the, shall we say, stigma still attached to computer games and the people who play them. "It's like watching somebody watch television," says Wright. "Until you have the controller in your hand, it's hard to understand the appeal." But he's confident that in the next decade, as more and more people grow up playing video games, they will take their rightful place beside...
...production company, Cube Vision. "Where black movies are concerned, it's easier to get people to put up money to laugh than to cry." The recipe: make rowdy ensemble films with fine black actors. Lavish time and care; be stingy with nothing but money. Hope the core audience will expand to folks of any color looking for a fun show...
Harvard: In search of more space to expand our Nobel-winning academic juggernaut...
...Blix wanted to do the Iraqi government the courtesy of explaining what arrangements he was making to resume the inspections. He told the Iraqis that UNMOVIC will need to expand its base in Baghdad and open a field office in the northern city of Mosul. The Iraqis in turn gave the inspectors a list of approved hotels where the inspectors could stay...