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...have the commitment to fight." Attiya and Aslam come from a long line of religious scholars, going back at least seven generations. Their forefathers all memorized the Koran, and the house where they were born in Larik, on the left bank of the river Indus, was on Mullah Street, so called because of their family's traditional profession. But their father, a poet, rebelled. He threw off his religious mantle and started a school for girls. As a child, Attiya was surrounded by the rhythms and cadences of his poetry, and she followed in his footsteps, writing in her native...
...could turn some of NAFTA's winners into losers. The Mexican auto-parts industry, for instance, exports more than 60% of its production to the U.S. But Enrique Zambrano Benitez, CEO of Proeza, a partsmaker that employs 5,000 in Monterrey, Mexico, is anxious about Brazil's big parts indus-try, which currently faces U.S. barriers that would fall in the proposed free-trade area...
...member of the Harvard Water Program, Fiering worked in the early 1960s on a study of waterlogging and salinity in the Indus River basin...
...long since come and gone in the Middle and Near East, and a transitional epoch, known as the Chalcolithic (copper and stone) period was approaching its zenith. The first Chalcolithic culture appeared suddenly -- and mysteriously -- in the Near East in about 4000 B.C. and quickly spread toward the Indus River basin and the Mediterranean...
...talking in the clipped modern diction of a yuppie warrior -- contemptuous of doubt, confident of the power of confidence itself. Dumb luck makes him an epic hero. Every country his armies confront submits without battle. Then comes disaster just as abrupt and irrational: his soldiers all march into the Indus River and drown. The man of action, it turns out, is as storm tossed on the seas of fate as any man of thought -- and far less equipped to handle the swings of fortune. Any parallels to George Bush and the gulf war are obviously intentional...