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...next table. The scene is also deceptively simple: one bench in a French cafe and the outside world as reflected by the mirror behind it. But the snob has no money, the beggar is just as much a giver as he is a taker, and the old lady is not as saintly as she at first may seem...
...arrest of Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, Mullah Mohammad Omar's vaunted No. 2, seems to have reversed the momentum. Talking to TIME inside the 2,000-year-old Bala Hissar fortress jutting above Peshawar's old bazaar, Tariq Khan, frontier corps commander major general, admitted that "at first, that commitment with the Americans wasn't there." Now, however, Khan says the U.S. and Pakistani forces along the border are sharing intelligence "in real time, as it's happening." (See why Pakistanis believe there is a U.S. conspiracy against them...
...when the CIA demanded that Baradar be grabbed. But the second theory, put out by local Pakistani journalists with reliable Taliban contacts, suggests that Baradar was dispensable for the Pakistani intelligence since he broke last December with Omar. According to Peshawar journalist Rahimullah Yousufzai, Taliban sources said the two old comrades split over Baradar's supposed openness to talks with the Kabul government of Hamid Karzai, whom Omar and the Pakistanis despise. Also, Baradar was reportedly upset that Omar had shrugged off his warnings not to put too much trust in the Pakistanis. After Baradar's capture, says Yousufzai...
Brutus, who is Haitian American, officially resides in Orlando, Fla. She left Haiti when she was 11 years old and says she returned to deliver God's message. In January 2007, she says, she heard the voice of God reveal to her that a disaster would hit Haiti and that she was to warn the Haitian people. She then began to aggressively try to speak with Haitian President René Préval. She says she was dismissed repeatedly. "He wouldn't see me," Brutus tells TIME. "No one believed me, and they thought I was a loony." (See exclusive...
...video of TIME staffers finding a 94-year-old earthquake survivor in Haiti...