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...year-old Kashmir imbroglio. (Pakistan wanted to call it a "dispute"; India insisted on the more watery "issue.") As television commentators haggle over semantic scraps and militants vow to step up their jihad, mourning continues in Kashmir?and not only for the recent dead. A few hundred people gather to lay a foundation stone for a memorial to the 4,000-5,000 people who have "disappeared" since 1989?those arrested by Indian security forces and never seen again. The site is at Idgah, outside Srinagar, next to the Mazar-e-Shohda Muslim cemetery, where thousands of the conflict...
...Every member of Congress has a posse - people who, in addition to their day job, do the driving, gather the intelligence, tell the boss his floor speech was positively Jeffersonian. Authorities want to know whether Dayton's duties went beyond that. First they want to know what happened the night he reportedly drove Condit to a Virginia suburb to dispose of a case that once contained a watch that had been given to the Congressman by a former staff member, Joleen Argentini McKay. Second, they want to hear more about Dayton's recent conversations with McKay. McKay told USA Today...
After its first meeting in early June, the committee has adjourned for the summer to gather data and work on speaking to various members of the community who will be affected by the report...
That teetering edifice that is the Kyoto Protocol gets some emergency repair work this week as delegates from 180 countries gather in Bonn to work out problems that threaten to scuttle the deal altogether. With the U.S. definitely not on board, and Japan threatening to leave as well, there is tremendous pressure to get enough nations together to adopt some version of the treaty designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. If Japan withdraws support, the accord?s days may be numbered, and hope isn?t high among delegates that there will be an agreement this time around...
...kids who gather on sunny afternoons on a concrete plaza at the corner of hip boulevards Meiji and Omotesando seem to be taking their cultural cues from myriad psychedelic compass points: Ibiza, Goa, San Francisco. Hopping trains into the city from all over Japan, these teens and twentysomethings flock for the express purpose of flaunting some of the wackiest Mad Hatter outfits east of Fillmore West. They get gussied up in sidewalk dragging, patchwork skirts under military jackets, or blood red, cropped kimonos paired with platforms and body piercings. The kids tote tom-toms, shopping bags, vinyl purses shaped like...