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...lunching on fried chicken as veiled women move around beneath drawings of English castles and shelves stacked with children's toys. Her father is well, Nanik says politely through an interpreter. His faith sustains him. She waves the visitors off with smiles. Down the road at Ngruki, amid a labyrinth of laneways, students in the school grounds are deeply wary of strangers. "Australia is the world's largest wool producer," is all one student will say as he hurries away. In the distance several students wear T shirts adorned with images of machine guns. No one can explain their meaning...
...Seeing him shipped off to Brussels is a bonus for Mandelson's detractors. Is it smart for Blair? Inside the Brussels labyrinth, Mandelson should be good at pushing Blair's brand of reform - less regulation and more transparency. But Blair's biggest European problem is at home: the referendum he has promised on the E.U. constitution, likely to be held no sooner than 2006. Britain's highly Euro-skeptic voters will make this a seriously uphill fight, and one of Mandelson's key jobs will be to help lead it. Opponents of the constitution say: Bring him on. "Who better...
...late 2002, Melbourne's Federation Square didn't so much give birth to a new art gallery and moving-image museum as spit them out from a computer. A labyrinth of splintered steel, sandstone and glass, with more detours than a PlayStation game, for many the $A450-million complex represented everything they disliked about contemporary culture: an amorphous mass of postmodernism, with no discernable beginning or end. Here was a building that seemed to suffer from eternal attention deficit disorder...
...thousand years, the Wazir tribesmen who rule part of Pakistan's rugged western border with Afghanistan defeated invading armies by drawing them into a labyrinth of mountains to pick off enemy troops one by one. Their weapons have evolved from arrows to rocket-propelled grenades, but their deadly tactics have not. The Wazir humbled the Mughals in the 16th century and the British in the 19th and 20th centuries. Last month, it was the Pakistani army's turn. In an April 17 ceremony, Pakistani Lieut. General Safdar Hussain signed a truce with the leaders of the tribal forces, ending...
Searching for live updates online is always a labyrinth of dead ends, and the radio broadcasts online are never a sure thing...