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Already, some clerics, especially among the rifle-wielding Pashtun tribesmen of the northwest frontier, are calling for a holy war against America. They are of the same tribe as the Taliban across the border. Tribesmen believe that Musharraf is breaking their strict code of Pashtunwali, in which honor and revenge are paramount. In the village of Shakot, gunsmith Aziz Khan glanced up from a lathe as he bored holes to craft a homemade Kalashnikov rifle (price: $120) and warned, "In our culture, we give our baby son an unloaded pistol to play with in the cradle, so that he becomes...
...Already, some clerics, especially among the rifle-wielding Pashtun tribesmen of the northwest frontier, are calling for a holy war against America. They are of the same tribe as the Taliban across the border. Tribesmen believe that Musharraf is breaking their strict code of Pashtunwali, in which honor and revenge are paramount. In the village of Shakot, gunsmith Aziz Khan glanced up from a lathe as he bored holes to craft a homemade Kalashnikov rifle (price: $120) and warned, "In our culture, we give our baby son an unloaded pistol to play with in the cradle, so that he becomes...
...never expected it to take off,” Ulrich admits. “But lots of people have asked me since if they could use it for various reasons. In the past few months, for example, I have heard from a Hewlett-Packard division in the Northwest and from a public health collective in the South.” The Mount Holyoke History Department ordered t-shirts from one angry girl designs with the Ulrich quote emblazoned...
...inherent conflict of interest: profit-driven airlines are largely responsible for screening passengers. The more money and time they spend in that process, the less efficient and profitable they become. It's not that they strive to be lax, but security isn't their business. Last Thursday a Northwest Airlines flight crew in Phoenix, Ariz., deliberately got through security carrying a pocketknife and corkscrew, just to show how weak the system remains...
...They may not be needed back. United Airlines told CNN Tuesday that it plans to cut at least 20,000 employees, or 20 percent of its workforce, joining the announced-layoff parade at Continental (12,000), U.S. Airways (11,000) and Northwest (to be announced). Midway is already in bankruptcy. Continental, the most debt-ridden of all the majors, is talking about it for October. And many airline-watchers expect United and American to follow suit - not least because a bankruptcy filing would protect them from getting sued by victims? families...