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...shelter fugitives from the Pakistani police and army. The U.S. government's $27 million reward for bin Laden has little sway here; villagers don't trust the Pakistani government to cut them in on their share of the reward. They're just as suspicious of members of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency, who they believe might be collecting al-Qaeda payoffs and would kill them if they ratted. "We do have information about al-Qaeda," says a tribal chieftain in Quetta, "but we don't have a safe way of passing this on to the Americans...
...Lahore court released Hafiz Mohammed Saeed, the leader of a banned Islamic militant organization with past links to al-Qaeda, claiming he had been unlawfully detained. Army support for Musharraf may also be slipping: diplomats say MMA leader Qazi Hussain Ahmed may have met with officials of the powerful Inter-Services Intelligence agency before demanding that the President step down as army chief. With such tawdry beginnings, Musharraf's guided democracy may have already lost...
...inter-House transfers, the committee approved a measure to make it easier for students to transfer to another House without a “host...
Would you like worms with that grasshopper? A former Thai disc jockey and her ex-shrimp-farmer boyfriend have launched Insects Inter, Thailand's first fast-food chain specializing in cooked bugs. Water beetles and scorpions have long been popular foods in the country's impoverished northern provinces, but Pailin Thanomkait, 32, and Satapol Polprapas, 29, are betting that middle-income urbanites and adventurous Western visitors will pay 70˘ for a box of crispy fried crickets with chili sauce. The company's network of kiosks has doubled to 60 in the past four months, and Insects Inter aims to have...
...ruling might mean little in states like Michigan and California, whose Supreme Courts have already struck down proposed voucher initiatives, but broadly considered, the ruling brings to the table educational options once stigmatized as unconstitutional. That means greater discussion of other so-called choice-based reforms, like charter schools, inter-district public school choice and tax credits—proposals formerly marginalized for lack of political will. Thus, Zelman has rescued school choice from the depths of think tank research and pushed it to the forefront of public life...