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...Intelligence Agency (ISI) and by some members of the country's powerful military. The motive: gaining some influence over a neighbor with whom it shares a long and exceedingly porous border. Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto has denied any involvement, but in late September, Naseerullah Babar, Pakistan's Interior Minister, flew to Afghanistan to work out a settlement between the Taliban and the most powerful of the Afghan warlords. While that seemed to support suspicions, the stories told by several of the prisoners in the Panjshir, if true, would constitute the first direct evidence that Islamabad's involvement with...
...released on $200,000 bond and allowed to move to Colorado to work while awaiting trial. (He had already been summarily suspended from school and handed his diploma.) But just days before his trial was to begin, Alex's parents and Michael Sherman, his lawyer at the time, flew to Colorado to visit him. Last week Sherman testified he told Kelly he did not think he could get a "fair shake from the criminal justice system," blaming "horrendous pretrial publicity" and a ruling that allowed him to be tried for both rapes simultaneously (the charges have since been separated). "These...
...last week's meeting made clear, pterosaurs continue to confound. These bizarre animals, the first vertebrates that truly flew, are a "biological oxymoron," says paleontologist Kevin Padian of the University of California, Berkeley. "Apart from the fact that they flew, there isn't a thing that all the experts agree on. How can animals that are so familiar to generations of schoolchildren be so confusing to the people who study them...
...married to each other) and the basic premise--a divorced couple working together at a New York City newspaper. The show was rebuilt from scratch in just five weeks, starting with a brainstorming session that English convened with a handful of writers on Martha's Vineyard. "I flew in the day after Hurricane Eduoard and flew out the day before Hurricane Hortense hit," she says. "We thought it was very symbolic...
Peace in the Middle East and Bosnia may be elusive, but the Clinton Administration has brokered a sensitive cease-fire in Louisiana. Vice President Al Gore flew to Baton Rouge last Friday to preside over the reconciliation of two Democrats: Senate candidate Mary Landrieu and Congressman Cleo Fields, the state's leading black politician. The Gore intervention might seem like an awful lot of White House muscle to settle a neighborhood brawl. But the stakes are high in Louisiana's closely contested Senate race, which pits Landrieu against conservative Republican Louis ("Woody") Jenkins. When Fields finally endorsed Landrieu last week...