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...most impressive climb that humans attempt. In 1993 the traffic was heavy in both directions, from the world's lower brain to the upper, and back down again. Gestures of statesmanship, as lately in Northern Ireland, alternated with low-brain savageries: the lashing tribal wars of Bosnia, Somalia, Kashmir, Afghanistan, Angola, Burundi, Georgia, Nagorno-Karabakh . . . The list of conflicts went on and on, like a vicious geography lesson. The euphoria that had attended the fall of the Berlin Wall, the disintegration of communism and the end of the cold war had some seers announcing that amid instant global communications...
...senior Indian intelligence officer told TIME the coordination (police defused two further devices), planning and suspected use of RDX explosive pointed to Lashkar-e-Toiba (LET), a Pakistan-based group with ties to al-Qaeda that carries out regular attacks in Indian-administered Kashmir and across India. LET was behind a gun attack on the Indian Parliament in New Delhi in December 2001, and linked to a twin bomb attack on India's financial capital, Bombay, in August 2003. While last week's bombs were likely to have been too long in the planning to be an attempt to disrupt...
Although Harvard matched donations for both last year’s tsunami relief effort and for Katrina relief this fall, Summers said in an interview with The Crimson last week that he did not expect the University to do the same for the recent earthquake in Kashmir that left 53,000 dead...
...Pakistan's tussle over land. Talking to one reporter, he said, "We were told that we would stay at the camps for only a few months. But over 15 years have passed now, and we are still here. Half our families are still on the other side of Kashmir." He and many other refugees were unable to find jobs in Pakistan and now he would like to go back home to Indian Kashmir...
...Kashmiris support Pakistan over India. Given a chance, Butt says that he and most Kashmiris would prefer independence over being governed by either India or Pakistan. But it will take more than an earthquake, even one as massive as the Oct. 8 jolt, for India and Pakistan to let Kashmir break away...