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...Observers believe the rampant corruption in the poorly-paid Russian armed forces has contributed to the mobility of the Chechen fighters - wads of cash (raised through criminal extortion or donations from jihadi-sympathizers abroad) has often proven a more effective weapon than a rocket launcher in the hands of separatist fighters looking to break through Russian lines. The heavy-handed tactics of Moscow's forces has alienated even many of those Chechens who had initially welcomed their arrival as deliverance from the violent chaos of criminality and warlordism that had prevailed under the de facto independence won from Moscow...
...Time to Buy Shell? Eight months after disclosing that it had massively overstated its proven oil reserves, Royal Dutch/Shell continues to be roiled by a barrage of bad news. Britain's Financial Services Authority and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission are still investigating the company, even after announcements last week that they are fining Shell a combined $150 million for "unprecedented misconduct," in the words of the FSA. And Nigeria's Senate passed a resolution calling on the company to pay $1.5 billion for environmental and health hazards it allegedly caused in the Niger Delta. But with Shell stock...
That may have encouraged the sides to step back for a moment from a climactic confrontation. But al-Sadr has a proven track record of standing up to the U.S. by exploiting American reluctance to storm a holy place. "The shrine," says British Major General Andrew Graham, deputy commander of the Multinational Corps-Iraq, "is an invisible shield. He's picked a battlefield where he knows we won't go." That is why both sides have repeated the pattern of go-no-go set in Fallujah. "Tell me," says Graham, "what are the alternatives?" --With reporting by Christopher Allbritton, Brian...
...issue of reason vs. ignorance, as the Democrats have portrayed it, but of recognizing two important competing human values: the thirst for knowledge and cures on the one hand and, on the other, the respect for even embryonic human life and a well-grounded respect for the proven human capacity to misuse newly acquired powers, in this case, the power to manipulate, reshape, dissect and redesign the developing human embryo...
...Defense Minister. As a senior woman in public life, this casual epithet is insulting and denigrating. I have been the president of an important political party and been known as a political and social activist for 20 years. Smearing people so casually and presuming persons to be guilty until proven innocent are the ugly faces of today's "new" journalism. Must TIME also resort to it? Jaya Jaitly New Delhi...