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...days earlier, Makasan had watched his father pack a clean shirt, two sarongs and his prayer beads in preparation for what Mae Ai told him would be a pilgrimage to an ancient and holy mosque in the nearby town of Pattani. The next night Makasan found himself lining up outside the Thai military headquarters in Pattani to collect his father's corpse. Military officials described to Makasan how, together with 31 other men, six of them from Som, his father attacked a police checkpoint, killed two officers, then retreated inside the crumbling, red brick Krue Se mosque to launch...
...Thirty-five percent A’s will set us apart from the pack in a way that identifies Princeton as a real leader in tackling this problem,” Princeton Dean of the College Nancy W. Malkiel wrote in a cover letter accompanying the proposal...
...bribe one person?a stadium security officer?for the right to manage the lot at Senayan Stadium. But now, Asep complains, he is routinely approached by people claiming to be policemen, soldiers, sports department officials and political-party officers, all demanding baksheesh of a few thousand rupiah or a pack of cigarettes. These kickbacks often eat away almost half of his meager earnings of $2 a day, but "it's hard not to give," says Asep, "because you don't know anymore who is really in charge...
...Qaeda's leadership destroyed, al-Zarqawi is an archetype of the new terrorism threat: a global operator plugged into a network of like-minded Islamists from London to Lahore. In his letter, al-Zarqawi declared that if his efforts to sow chaos in Iraq fail, "we can pack up and leave and look for another land." Few tasks in the war on terrorism are more urgent than to find him before he does so. --By Romesh Ratnesar
Simon Cowell is the Barry Goldwater of reality TV: in your heart, you know he's right. After a weak rendition of You Keep Me Hangin' On last month on an episode of American Idol, sweet-faced Leah LaBelle was told by Cowell to "pack your suitcase." The crowd booed him lustily. The next night Idol's army of home voters sent LaBelle packing. This is the Cowell paradox. Fans of Fox's megahit talent show--not to mention its contestants--have few kind words for the adder-tongued English judge. He's been jeered, doused with a glass...