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From Washington to London to Istanbul, politicians and experts were quick to lay the blame on bin Laden's al-Qaeda. Officials noted that last week's bombing spree bore all the hallmarks of the group's operational style: using suicide bombers to launch multiple attacks almost simultaneously at soft targets. An obscure militant group even invoked bin Laden's name in claiming responsibility...
...been captured by a demented movie director who plops you down in an abandoned slum infested with gang members. The gang members think they're hunting you. They are sadly mistaken. You are hunting them, with whatever weapons--a plastic bag, a sawed-off 12 gauge--you can lay your ruthless, muscular hands on. Meanwhile, the director gleefully captures the gore on film...
...worsening turmoil in Iraq after so many friends of the U.S. sent warnings about what lay ahead. No amount of advice would sway the Administration's headlong gallop to war. Perhaps now there will be a more reflective process for creating foreign policy. The U.S. must accept that its system is not the only form of humane and caring government and that some people conditioned by centuries of culture want other solutions. MARCUS KNEEN Zesfontein, South Africa...
...Duke & Duchess of York than to the parents of most three-year-olds. For example, on their tour of Australia they were obliged to accept and bring home ... no less than three tons of toys and precisely 20 fine squawking parrots. The Duchess cannot appear at a bazaar, lay a cornerstone or address the Girl Guides (of which she is one) without having pressed upon her--"for Baby Betty, the darling!" --TIME, April...
...famous lawyers, the young Jawaharlal had British tutors and was educated at two of England's most élite establishments, Harrow and Cambridge. Gandhi's example transformed a mediocre Anglophile lawyer into a nationalist hero, but the two men's visions were hardly alike: Gandhi believed India's future lay in self-sufficient villages, but Nehru, influenced by Soviet socialism, wanted to urbanize and industrialize, filling India with steel mills, hydroelectric dams and engineering colleges. And Nehru's vision...