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...commanders obeyed. In the Shomali Plain, Taliban commander Nuruludah says, he saw women being forced onto trucks by Pakistani members of al-Qaeda, so he gathered 10 men, ambushed the trucks and released the women. In Jalalabad too, a few local Taliban eventually stormed the camp and freed the women who remained there. These were the heroic exceptions. For others, apparently, the profound degradation of women seemed perfectly tolerable...
...sluggish response. With the government preoccupied with stemming the rising tide of public complaints, social and religious groups have had to pick up the slack, delivering instant noodles, rice, medicine, blankets and clothing to thousands of the city's 12 million residents unable to return home. Belatedly, the Governor freed up $50 million in aid but few believe it will reach the needy. Nursjabani Kacasungkana, head of the Indonesian Women's Coalition, and 28 other organizations have accused local officials of misappropriating 40% of the city's flood-prevention funds and issuing building permits in violation of zoning regulations. "Unlike...
...confusing thing, though, about many people in our position is that freed from the need to take a job because of the paycheck, we often do so anyway. Instead of seven dollars an hour it’s seventy grand a year, but the principle is still the same, materialism reigns. Where the Subway employee needs, we want and though society has a tendency to exalt our position, individuality falls prey to both equally. The greatest opportunity afforded by our privileged position is the chance to invert the pernicious relationship that subsumes the self to money. But instead of seizing...
...children with fundamentalist Islam. The Saudi government has used its oil money in the past to export these same radical views throughout the Muslim world. Saudi money paid for many of the Pakistani madrassas that were the breeding grounds of the Taliban. And after the NATO bombing campaign freed the Kosovars from the threat of genocide by the Serbs, Saudi money financed the development of mosques in Kosovo that still preach the extreme Wahhabi sect of Islam...
...Winners DAME EDNA EVERAGE Cross-dressed Aussie gets role on Ally McBeal. You'll know they've jumped the shark when an Edna-Ally-Bon Jovi love triangle is revealed STEPHEN DOWNING Mentally impaired Briton is freed after 27 years in prison for a bum murder rap. At least he got to miss the Thatcher years LARRY KING Voluble host re-signs with CNN for nearly $7 million a year. Heck, we'd chat with a totally with-it babe like Angie Dickinson for free Losers QUEEN ELIZABETH II Her Majesty may sacrifice her royal train to cut costs...