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Nobody doubts Musharraf's commitment to eradicate the Taliban element in Pakistan. The persistence of entrenched pockets of extremism simply highlights the extent of the challenge he faces. The U.S. has thrown him essential lifelines in the form of debt rescheduling, economic aid and political patience and sympathy. And he...
The hardworking american middle class should not tolerate or condone behavior like Enron's. If things like this are allowed to continue, it will be our hard-earned savings that will next end up in the CEOs' pockets. LYNN A. MALDONADO North Branch, Minn.
Not everyone is buying the pleas of poverty, however. "The way you browbeat people into taking less money is to convince them there isn't any," says Fred Halstrom, a Boston lawyer representing a plaintiff in a sex-abuse suit there. "But the Catholic Church worldwide has immense assets." The...
The foul line had been unchartered territory for much of the game, as the officials kept their whistles in their pockets despite some physical inside play. Only eight fouls were called in the first half, and neither team attempted a free throw for the first 18 minutes of the second...
Afghanistan's "postwar" era is hardly a peaceful one. Last Thursday U.S. special forces engaged in a major fire fight, one of the largest in the conflict so far, near the village of Hazar Qadam, 60 miles north of Kandahar. The good news is that no American soldier died; one...