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...silent. The joy is gone. And recruitment? The Pakistani mullahs who after Sept. 11 had urged hapless young men to join the Taliban in fighting America and now have to answer to bereaved parents are facing ostracism and disgrace. Al-Qaeda agents roaming the madrasahs of Pakistan and the poorer neighborhoods of the Arab world will have a much harder sell. The syllogism of invincibility that sustained Islamic fanaticism is shattered...
...furious protesters blamed authorities for the high death toll in the country?s worst flood for 40 years. More than 850 people were feared killed, and the Red Cross launched an appeal for $1.2 million to help 24,000 people left homeless or destitute. Residents of the capital?s poorer areas accused the government of not unblocking drains sealed in the 1990s so militants could not use them as escape routes. RWANDA New Lives Authorities began releasing hundreds of children detained after the 1994 genocide. The youngsters, who were between five and 12 at the time of the killings, were...
...doubt, the new WTO blueprint is hugely ambitious. It commits trade officials to negotiate an end to agricultural subsidies across the globe, discuss a new competition framework, debate equal treatment for foreign investors, speed up customs procedures, improve market access for the WTO?s poorer nations and sort out the complex relationship between environmental treaties and trade rules. The World Bank has already estimated that the new round could boost growth by up to $2.8 trillion...
...study released last month concluded that the SAT I is far poorer than the SAT II at predicting the academic performance of students at the university...
...jihad volunteers are mostly from first-generation British families and feel oppressed by the stresses of biculturalism, suggests Mounir Daymi, executive director of Britain's Muslim Students Society. This alienation is felt most deeply in the poorer communities. That's where you will find "some people who want the clash of civilizations to happen," Daymi says. Adam Armstrong, 35, a Luton teacher who converted to Islam in 1989 because he felt "something was missing" in his life, endorses that view. The volunteers, however few, are "devout Muslims, often university students," he says, the sort of idealists who used...