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...announcement of a foiled "dirty bomb" plot - or at least the apprehension of a plotter who hadn't quite formulated his plan - serves as a timely reminder that congressional probes into pre-September 11 intelligence failures are taking place in the midst of continuing peril. But like those vague threat warnings that periodically emanate from the authorities these days, Monday's announcement of the detention of Abdullah al Muhajir poses more questions than it answers...
...they had to find their footing in a media age. But the progress they made was undermined by scandal, especially through the mutual loathing of Charles and Diana. The public snapped it up, ogling the juicy parts while clucking disapprovingly about the "terrible decline in standards." This was a peril mainly for Elizabeth's offspring. She herself never cheapened the brand. In fact, courtiers often wished she was not so reticent and had a greater sense of the touching gesture that would play...
...Kashmir is the locus of that terrible peril because, for most of the players, continuing conflict works. It works for the militants, who have found an escape from grinding poverty in the gun and the cash and prestige it attracts. That's true of both the indigenous Kashmiri militants and the "guest mujahedin" who come in from Pakistan, veterans of ISI-run training camps in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir and former Taliban-ruled territory in Afghanistan, who subscribe to the same ideal of waging a purifying jihad...
...Muhammed Amin Butt, a Srinagar lawyer, says he could barely afford to send his son Omar away for education. However, the worried attorney believes he really had no choice. "Kashmir was politically too hot and everybody's life was at peril. Secondly, the educational system had been cast to the dogs." Omar went to Kolhapur and earned an engineering degree and then came home to Srinagar, but has failed to find work. (Virtually the only employers in Kashmir are the state government, the despised police force and the carpet weavers and handicraft factories.) Omar is wondering whether to leave home...
Friends and analysts alike agree that it's that kind of optimism that drove both Ebbers' triumph and his downfall. Although he was rated by Forbes in 1999 as one of the 200 richest Americans, with a $1.4 billion net worth, his fortune is in peril. At a time when other infamous chief executives have covertly jettisoned their company stock, he has stubbornly held on to his 27 million shares of WorldCom, many of them bought with margin loans. WorldCom executives say privately that Ebbers agreed to resign largely so he could focus on selling off real estate assets, perhaps...