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...problems, Bangladesh continues to possess two heartening resources: the courage of a small band of intellectuals and journalists who on a daily basis resist the spread of extremism, and the religious tolerance of a large number of its people. Yet its strengths might prove useless unless its political leaders stop fighting among themselves and start reining in the fundamentalists?while there is still time. Says security expert Ibrahim: "Sheikh Hasina and Khaleda Zia must meet at once and start talking, before this country sinks into the Bay of Bengal...
...General Franks delivered an Orwellian tour de force. In a single short interview, he blamed the Iraqis for their country's electricity shortage, even though the U.S. created the situation; said he is "very thankful" that Iraq did not possess weapons of mass destruction (WMD), even though this was one of the main justifications for the war; implied that the mere possibility that Saddam Hussein might have acquired WMD justified the war, even though such a broad premise would warrant attacking many other nations; and claimed without evidence that Saddam's regime was working with al-Qaeda, even though there...
...ghosts that possess Mitchell--James Joyce, Thomas Pynchon, Martin Amis--are sturdy ones, and this master of voices knows science and generic utopian Asia, Steven Spielberg and British misanthropy. His language crackles with texture and bite: "Faith, the least exclusive club on Earth, has the craftiest doorman" and "[the] sequined gaggle of mantled goslings streamed past me." Mitchell, with typical impenitence, even invents a whole new dialect ("A yarnin' is more delish with broke-de-mouth grinds") for a race in the future. The propulsive zing of his sentences and the unexpected U-turn of his narrative give added fuel...
...since he is practically homegrown. Born in Guyana and reared in Miramar, Florida, where his father, a Saudi-Yemeni cleric now deceased, preached hard-line Wahhabism at a small mosque, el-Shukrijumah took computer classes at Broward Community College in Florida. He holds Guyanese and Trinidadian passports, may also possess Canadian and Saudi passports, and can easily pass for Hispanic. "He speaks English and has the ability to fit in and look innocuous," says an FBI agent. U.S. authorities have put his name on domestic and international watch lists but fear he will travel to Mexico or Canada on phony...
...Bonaventura, who was on the Summerbridge faculty admissions committee this year, said the applicants had to possess several qualities beyond the desire to teach to be accepted to the program...