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...country as a whole. That there is widespread police corruption is no surprise given the lack of training, funds and firepower, notes Abdul Salaam Rocketi, a former mujahedin commander and a Member of Parliament. "If you have a dog and you don't feed it, it will knock on other doors...
...poor quality of the saber didn't do much to calm the diplomatic fury set off by Pyongyang's saber rattling. Most notable, however, was what was missing from the response. After weeks of talk of harsh rhetoric and debate in the media over preemptive military strikes to knock out the test missile, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Wednesday called for the issue to be discussed by the six-party forum that has since 2002 been negotiating over North Korea's nuclear program. That essentially amounts to a demand that North Korea return to the negotiating table, from which...
...even blame the filmmakers for mounting a seemingly ludicrous defense of Runway and its ilk. They have Miranda say that what her rag proposes as ultra chic one year eventually trickles down to Wal-Mart, where , in knock-off form, it makes everyone a little happier. This struck me as a pretty desperate rationalization. But then I glanced around the theater where I happened to be catching an early morning show of The Devil Wears Prada. It was full of large women in blue jeans who were not present to enjoy Andrea's moral triumph over the temptations...
...Apparently the great man wasn't too enthusiastic about the idea, but relented after speaking to his son, Timothy Jacob Jensen. "He did find that it was a bit foolish going all the way to a studio just to record his knock, and asked if it really mattered who was knocking on the door," says Jensen Jr., who is responsible for the day-to-day management of the design business that bears the family name. "I answered that it is never unimportant who is knocking on the door - and I think the future owners of the doorbell will agree." Design...
...large losses) for investors who stampeded in. But this time many foreign companies seem set to make a tidy profit, not least because this is one industry in which the Chinese are ill-equipped to undercut overseas rivals while also providing the requisite quality of service. "You can knock off Prada or Montblanc," says Ralph Grippo, China manager for Ritz-Carlton hotels. "But there's no way you can knock off luxury service. It's about human beings and experience. That's not something you can duplicate." Ford agrees: "There's no Chinese company right now that...