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There are few moments in history when a lifesaving chance emerges. Now is the time for the world to save Afghan women. But simply replacing the Taliban rulers with a combination of Northern Alliance tribesmen (who have a just marginally less gory past) and other warlords may be meaningless to women...
...Leonard, then 35. Now, through an acquisition binge, Leonard has increased the number of TV and radio stations CanWest owns and expanded into newspapers, making it Canada's largest media conglomerate and doubling revenues. CanWest has been acquiring media interests as far afield as Australia and Northern Ireland...
...does turn its war on terrorism to Somalia, the armed forces of neighboring Ethiopia are slated to be the Northern Alliance-type allied ground force. But the Addis Ababa Tribune laments the fact that Africa is on U.S. radar screens only because of the potential for al-Qaeda to seek refuge there. "America is pursuing its own interests first and last?," the paper editorializes. "For the foreseeable future the U.S.'s engagement with third world countries will be security-driven. Resources will flow to enhance security relationships at the expense of development assistance. Security alliances will define partnership. We fear...
...Hussein. His earlier effort 'Zabibah and the King,' about a torrid but noble romance between an embattled monarch and a brave married commoner, is due to be turned into a 20-part TV series. The new one has a war hero falling in love with a Kurdish refugee from Northern Iraq - presumably not one fleeing from his vicious bombing of Mosul...
...Chinese considered these northern lands, home to the indigenous, untamed Mongol hordes, to be outside the civilized world. And the Great Wall stands testimony to China's long struggle to protect the Middle Kingdom from the nomadic barbarians. But the wall was no obstacle to the heirs of Genghis Khan and their marauding Mongolian warriors, who finally conquered Beijing in 1267. Still, in the khans' time it was an arduous trek over desert and mountain to journey between the Mongolian heartland and Beijing. These days the trip is considerably easier; China United Airlines flies into a number of small commercial...