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...While the ISI appears to have turned its back on the Taliban and its extremist comrades, it hasn't completely abandoned ties to militants. Activity has been suspended in the training camps that once fed the Kashmir rebellion, militants say. But the ISI seems unwilling to make an irrevocable breach with the guerrillas, in the event it later decides to rev up its clandestine support of them, according to foreign diplomats. The seven main suspects still at large in the kidnapping and murder of Wall Street Journal correspondent Daniel Pearl last January all had indirect links with the spy agency...
...Where'd it come from? The government, both from a vigorously rate-cutting Fed and a tentatively tax-cutting Congress. Consumers, whose stalwart spending habits grew at an annual 3.5 percent pace even after all the good car-buying deals were gone. And businesses, which continued to slash inventories by $36.2 billion in Q1 - but not nearly as much as in the fourth quarter, when they unloaded a record $119.3 billion...
...could provide a startling measure of the extent to which arguably the most influential artist in the history of rock has been forgotten or misunderstood by younger generations. Alternatively, it could serve to revitalize images of the young, revolutionary King in the minds of a generation which has been fed little more than regurgitated clichés. Either way, it will speak volumes about the power of the media controlling the image of a man whose music deserves to be remembered, irrespective of the commercial hype it has generated...
...successful as the pigeon program has proved, it's soon to be phased out in favor of e-mail. Carrier pigeons "have no place in this advanced age," sniffs K.M. Deo, one of Orissa's inspectors general of police. Besides being considerably messy, the birds have to be fed, housed and trained not to overfly important local politicians?all of which cost a cash-strapped government $114,500 a year. Nevertheless, some of their less-advanced attributes will surely be missed: pigeons rarely crash, can't forward annoying knock-knock jokes, don't spam you with unwanted junk mail...
Through it all, the world somehow cries out for Yasser Arafat, and lauds him as peacemaker and statesman. Why? The Israeli populace does not trust him and has no faith that he will make serious concessions or uphold his end of any agreement. The Palestinian people, constantly fed visions of bloody glory and victory, were never led to a position where peace and compromise were possible...