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...everyone gets the joke. California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, waiting to address the Tory party conference by video link last fall, watched in bewilderment as Johnson warmed up the crowd with a speech littered with characteristic digressions. "He's fumbling all over the place," hissed the Governator, unaware that his microphone was switched on. Wags in Westminster have since dubbed Johnson "the Fumbulator." He responds with mock humility: "A man not famed for his eloquence found fault with my delivery and general mastery of public speaking. And these are things I obviously have to overcome...
...galaxy of extremist forces inside Pakistan. "Bhutto was the only Pakistani politician willing to stand up and say, 'I don't like violent terrorists,'" says Stephen Cohen, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. Many of these groups have intertwining histories and common loyalties - as well as shadowy links with Pakistani intelligence. As the probe into her assassination begins, investigators will have to sort through a morass of violent groups that were gunning for Bhutto. And while all have some historic link to al-Qaeda, they have just as much ideological impetus to act on their own - or at the behest...
...absolutely clear if or how Mehsud and Lashkar-i-Jhangvi link up. But both the Taliban and Lashkar-i-Jhangvi emerged from the two decades of fighting in Afghanistan, where eventually a Taliban regime would give refuge to al-Qaeda. Pakistani intelligence services were also active in Afghanistan, encouraging Muslim fighters in their war against the Soviet occupation of that country. One of the groups that emerged from this group was Lashkar-i-Tayyba or the "Army of the Pure," which Pakistani intelligence agents, after the end of the Afghan war, would redirect toward Kashmir and the Indian troops stationed...
...also 11]. Jacob likes to play games on the computer - but by himself, not with me. He gets too angry if he loses and then doesn't want to play." Adam's father, Paul, says soberly, "I'm sure Eric represents the brother Adam might have had." (Read "A Link Between Autism and Testosterone...
Some claim the Canadian dollar rose against the greenback because the U.S. dollar has been dragged down by government budget deficits, a long and costly war, and a yawning gap between the value of imports and exports. True enough. But the link between the loonie and the worldwide boom in commodities had even more to do with it. If you graph the value of the Canadian dollar with the prices of oil, natural gas, certain metals and grain, "it's pretty hard to tell which is which, down to every little squiggle," says TD Bank Financial Group chief economist...