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...Britain's Independent warns that while more pain lies ahead for the Argentines, such pain also breeds the political turmoil seen in recent days. "For that reason it would be better if the IMF did not force (harsh cuts in public spending) on an already weakened body politic immediately, but phased them in as part of a package that rescheduled the debt. Over the past decade or so, agencies such as the IMF and the World Bank have moved towards a more realistic approach to writing off some of the more extravagant debts owed to them, and this has been...
...than 3 times the recommended sentence, for his role in a 1996 highway showdown on the George Washington Memorial Parkway that killed three drivers. That sentence, for involuntary manslaughter, was also overturned, but the appeals court left open the possibility that Brinkema could find other grounds for such a harsh term. Which...
...reenter areas under PA control and annex large swathes of the West Bank." Editor Ebrahim Nafie warns that bombing PA buildings makes it impossible for Arafat to implement a crackdown on terror suspects and forge an anti-terrorism consensus among Palestinians. He berates Washington's support Sharon, but has harsh words for Hamas, too: "As religious and political leaders throughout the Arab world have repeatedly stressed, the murder of civilians is an abomination. Such acts serve only to tarnish the Palestinian cause and furnish Sharon with the excuse to confuse the issues...
...officials have repeatedly warned, the war on terrorism is not about bin Laden. His capture or death would certainly deal a harsh blow to al Qaeda and destroy his carefully-constructed image as America's nemesis. But depriving the movement of its poster-boy icon and chief spokesman won't necessarily extinguish the threat it represents. Bin Laden has never been the network's operational commander, and although he is known to his acolytes as "the sheikh" he has no clerical standing, either. His contribution may have come primarily as a rainmaker raising funds among wealthy Gulf Arabs...
...Alexander the Great [THE WAR, Nov. 19]. You failed to mention the remarkable story of how, in the 1930s and '40s, under the spiritual leadership of Badshah Khan, a Pashtun tribal leader and close ally of Mohandas Gandhi's, 100,000 Pashtun warriors embraced nonviolence, enduring harsh repression at the hands of the British. In a time when Muslims, including ethnic Pashtun, are feared and even despised, the public doesn't know that an Islamic leader took those same people to the pinnacle of their humanity, the nonviolence of the brave. MICHAEL REED Davis, Calif...