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...recapture of Mazar-i-Sharif in northern Afghanistan. Once that happens, the thinking goes, the tide will swiftly turn against the Taliban commanders. Otherwise, a major U.S.-led assault could have disastrous effects inside Afghanistan--and in neighboring Pakistan too. "We have a saying: 'To kill a louse, you needn't set fire to your jacket,'" explains Mohammed Sarwar Khan Kakar, an influential tribal leader and politician in Quetta. "In other words, to catch Osama bin Laden, you don't have to burn all Afghanistan." Despite their grievances against the Taliban's brutish rule, Pashtuns would close ranks and rally...
...operation to another (Welles supposedly traveled from studio to studio in an ambulance, saving time and carfare). They?d arrive to the fanfare of their emi-nence, swiftly rehearse the script, do the show, then zip away to the next emer-gency. Welles was aces at this game. He needn?t spend months reimagining a play script, or weeks in rehearsal; he could do the shows in what passed for spare time in his life. And he could be anyone: Canadian quints or, his most famous characterization, The Shadow, asking, "Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts...
...wants no part of provisions in the Kennedy bill that would allow aggrieved patients to sue HMOs in state court and win jury awards of up to $5 million. Conservative Republicans in Congress were appalled at the thought of a Kennedy-Bush compromise on the legislation, but they needn't have worried. Bush wasn't eager to strike any deal that would burnish the reputation of McCain, his bitter opponent in the Republican presidential primaries and still a rival today. So instead of supporting McCain-Edwards-Kennedy, Bush endorsed the more business-friendly measure sponsored by Senators John Breaux, Bill...
...Danish firm that produces one of China's most popular beers. Police last year sentenced him to a year in a Beijing prison for practicing Falun Gong, and relatives say he was tortured when he refused to disavow his beliefs. Chen is due for release this week. He needn't bother asking for his old job back. "If a person can't work, then we have to find someone else," explains Wang Hong, head of human resources for Carlsberg...
...movie's secret weapon is Dunst herself, who went for the role of Crazy/Beautiful's bad girl because "I was so ready to play a part like that. I don't want people to just see me as the cute, sweet girl." She needn't worry. Although her biggest success so far came last year as the chirpy cheerleader in the surprise high school hit Bring It On, Dunst (known as Kiki to friends and family) has shown impressive range in a career that began with a Kix cereal commercial at age 3 and spans three dozen movie...