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...Lengthy queues soon formed by the chairlift, with thousands of worshippers keen to cross the river and attend the militant leader's Friday sermons. Swat's established élite looked on with mounting anxiety. "The followers multiplied inexorably," says a member of Swat's Wali family, the traditional tribal leader, declining to be identified by name. "We were feeling Fazlullah was a political threat. What we built over 150 years could just go in one fatwa. [The militants] played on the deep religious sentiment of the people, their economic deprivation and sense of neglect...
Among Iraq's élite, Steavenson encountered "varying shades of hypocrisy." No one "ever looked me straight in the eye and admitted responsibility for the crimes of the government which they had served." Even Sachet, a loving father and God-fearing soldier, ordered the execution of officers. "When the penalty of death becomes commonplace, perhaps it becomes unremarkable to order it," Steavenson observes...
...Farrell's characters survive in spirit, too. Misfits like Webb still wander into Singapore, and though firms like Blackett's have ceded to local conglomerates, his penchant for order and profit can still be witnessed within today's business élite. With his gentle wit Farrell captures the soul of Singapore: a polyglot Asian port, still partly under the sleepy sway of its British colonial past, and still lurching toward an uncertain future with a furious, irresistible energy...
...though it will be an expensive, arduous process to determine so many products’ carbon footprints, this is the clear next step in fighting pollution and climate change. Remember the fights between Bud Light and Miller Lite over calorie counts? Imagine if their advertising slogan were applied to the environment: “More taste, less carbon...
...interfered in Iran's internal affairs. The effect has been to create a siege mentality even among those Iranians who don't support the government. "You go outside in the morning, and the first thing you read is that you may be bombarded," says a woman from an élite family, referring to rumors about U.S. or Israeli plans to bomb Iran's nuclear-development program, which the government insists is for civilian purposes. "What other country lives with this threat on a daily basis? [Our nuclear program has] nothing to do with...