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...couple of weeks back was one about the perfect vigilante weapon for the modern age: the cell-phone jammer, which silences signals within 30 feet. It's illegal and surely irresistible for commuters who still prefer to read objects with pages, undisturbed by the conference calls of their fellow travelers...
That's a disturbing scenario for the Bush Administration, which was counting on the Musharraf-Bhutto deal to keep Pakistan stable. Many in Washington worry that the general is getting progressively heavy-handed and dictatorial. "Musharraf is digging in," says Stephen Cohen, a South Asia expert and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. "He is either suicidal or totally ignorant of the situation." Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice have both telephoned Musharraf and urged him to ease up. Rice is sending her deputy, John D. Negroponte, to Islamabad to try to hold the general to his promise...
...this might be fine if the ministers put all the money back into their mission work. But his now famous question about Meyer's $23,000 commode suggests he questions the destination of her estimated $124 million annual take. He has asked for her real estate records, reminding her fellow Missourians of an extended duel she had with Jefferson County officials that resulted in her agreeing in 2005 to pay taxes on half of her $20 million headquarters...
Grassley rejects the criticism. "We're not looking at doctrine. I don't know much about the words Prosperity gospel," he says. But he acknowledges that religious-freedom concerns may make an investigation a "little more difficult to defend." Fellow Senators--"I won't give their names"--have asked what they should tell the preachers. Says Grassley: "My answer was, 'Tell them to do what all the other nonprofits do--answer my letter.'" And hope for a different kind of grace...
...without explanation, he moves back to New York, gets his band together, and sets out to find Layla. Unbelievably, Rush absorbs music by osmosis. There isn’t a scene where it takes practice and determination to learn composition, guitar, piano, or organ. When Rush’s fellow street musician yells “Run, August, Run,” you might be best served to take his advice and head out off the theater...