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...untouched. For months, say U.S. officials, Washington has wanted to issue a list naming terror backers in Southeast Asia, thus freezing their assets in America and pressuring other countries to follow suit. But while arrests stemming from the Bali investigation dented JI's operational capacities, bureaucratic wrangling continues to hamper efforts to disrupt its financial support...
Preregistration will also hamper professors who, busy during term-time with classes and research, currently use intersession to compile syllabi and decide on the precise topics that their courses will cover. Under the new system, these decisions will have to be rushed or prepared much further in advance to get the information to students in November...
...industrial northeast, Carabinieri paramilitary police raided an abandoned farmhouse after monitoring a group of immigrants suspected of holding illegal weapons. No weapons were found, but sniffer dogs located a kilogram of C4, the explosive used in last year's Bali bombing, inside a sock thrown into a dirty-clothes hamper. Five Moroccans were arrested. Later, police searched a nearby apartment that was used as a makeshift mosque and found a local map with a nearby NATO base circled on it, as well as a list of all the NATO facilities in the vicinity. And just two days before that...
...Social Democrats, revolted as parliament passed a controversial bill raising pension-insurance costs. Under the measure, which takes effect Jan. 1, workers and their employers will be required to pay 19.5% of wages as pension contributions, up from 19.1% currently. Opposition parties and some Greens think the hike will hamper competitiveness. The bill also raises the upper limit on wages subject to the tax to €5,100 from the current €4,600. Ultimately, the Greens went along but 18 of them protested that the raise sends the "wrong message." Maybe their next move will be to release their...
...means to do so. NATO Secretary-General George Robertson has been cajoling members to pony up the military hardware needed to put the relevance question to rest. The alliance has already lost most of its credibility with the U.S. Starting in Kosovo in 1999, America chose not to hamper its strength by leashing it to NATO's creaky war-by-committee procedures. At the same time, many Europeans harbor concerns that a bulked-up NATO would stymie the E.U.'s attempts to act independently of Washington on security and foreign policy issues...