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...Hussain. "We offered him a lot, but he wasn't ready to agree to our terms." A day later, Ghazi was killed at the Red Mosque, not far from the very place where his father, the mosque's founder, was slain by unknown assailants in 1998. Minutes after the pre-dawn announcement that the talks had failed, explosions and gunfire thundered through the capital as Pakistani special forces launched Operation Silence, intended to be the military's final charge in the eight-day standoff between the government and radical students and clergy holed up inside the mosque complex. For more...
...delayed appointment of a city inspector general to act as a watchdog over public agencies, and ongoing investigations into corruption by past officials - an effort that Nagin, to his credit, spearheaded in his first term. New population statistics show that the city has regained more than half of its pre-Katrina population. Citizen-led reforms have consolidated the city's patchwork and inefficient network of property assessors and replaced the politician-dominated levee oversight system with a centralized office staffed largely by engineers and scientists. Enrollment at Tulane and Loyola University, New Orleans' prestigious private colleges, has rebounded...
...rare pre-publication interview, Campbell previewed to TIME some of the biggest revelations in the book, which is published tomorrow in the U.K. by Hutchinson and, in two weeks, by Knopf in the U.S. Like a kind of Zelig, only less self-effacing, Campbell was present at key events of the decade. Royal biographers have mined for new material on Princess Diana for years. Campbell's diaries reveal a trove of meetings she held with Blair when he was opposition leader, and describe the interaction of Buckingham Palace and the Labour Party in the days after her death. Depicted...
...Others are more serious. The conventional wisdom is that public pre-university education is in disarray. On the day we visited a public elementary school, four out of 11 teachers were missing. The government takes the publicly-financed healthcare system very seriously; posters about child vaccinations and medical attention blanket buses. Over the past 15 years, the government has conducted a very aggressive and effective anti-AIDS campaign that has included universal free treatment and television advertisements featuring parents giving condoms to progeny of various sexual persuasions. However, the system has been criticized: The Minister of Health faced audience participation...
...good humor to bad. But if Queer Duck has a godfather or bachelor uncle, it would have to be the classic old Rocky and Bullwinkle show (or, as it's called in a gay TV-porn collection Queer Duck owns, Rockhard & Bullsprinkle). And since that was the smartest pre-Simpsons cartoon series, I mean this as high praise indeed. For all its bitchiness, the movie manages to be frisky and genial. One last odd fact: Reiss is straight. "I write about [gay life] the way someone would write a Civil War novel," he told an interviewer for Planet...