Word: khans
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...story of Ilyumzhinov's rise to power reads like a James Bond movie scripted by Vladimir Nabokov. Like many other chess players, Ilyumzhinov was a prodigy. At 9 he was the chess champion of his native Kalmykia, a tiny, impoverished Russian republic populated by the descendants of Genghis Khan. But his talents went beyond pushing pawns. In his 20s he made millions running a string of banks in the early wildcat years of post-Soviet Russian capitalism. At the tender age of 31 the dapper Ilyumzhinov (he has a fondness for white capes and vintage Rolls-Royces) was elected President...
...sympathizers streaming toward the front lines from Pakistan. American officials wonder why such reinforcements would set off on a suicide mission unless they thought their leaders were trapped. American forces believe they have identified one "high-value target" in the valley, distinguished by the extent of his protection. Sardar Khan Zadran, a local commander, told TIME that last Wednesday, at a checkpoint on a mountain road leading to Khost, American-trained Afghan militiamen frisked two tribesmen and found an audiotape of bin Laden, some photographs of him, a letter detailing al-Qaeda operations in Afghanistan and a list of local...
TIME: Have you had any contact with the Zimbabwean government? KHAN: Yes. [Amnesty] has worked on Zimbabwe for a long time, and Rhodesia before that, so we have a long history of engagement in the area. At one point we'd even adopted Mr. Mugabe as one of our prisoners and worked on his case. But he has not been very positive toward Amnesty and has accused us of interference...
...KHAN: I hope to shift Amnesty from being an organization that has primarily focused on prisoner and prisoner-related issues to becoming a broader human-rights organization that takes into account the challenges of the 21st century in this area. With economic globalization there is at the same time a need for a globalization of human rights, a global values system. Human rights provides that framework...
TIME: You're the first woman, Asian and Muslim to head Amnesty. Are you an observant Muslim? KHAN: I'm not sure whether I'm a good Muslim or a bad Muslim. That will be decided by someone else...