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...that serves as our spiritual circuit board is simply impossible--like trying to draw a genetic schematic of love. Still, they're likely to keep trying. "I am personally convinced that there is a scheme of things," says Davies of Macquarie University, "that the universe is not just any ragbag of laws." In the end, genes may prove to be a part of that scheme--but clearly one of very many. --With reporting by Jeff Chu/ London, Broward Liston/ Orlando, Maggie Sieger/ Chicago and Daniel Williams/ Sydney...
...gangs from Eastern Europe, West Africa and Asia now funneling large numbers of girls onto French streets, the Assemblée Nationale is ready to allay voters' fears over mounting lawlessness. The loi Sarkozy, as the legislation proposed by France's high-profile Interior Minister is called, is a ragbag of internal-security measures whose targets include gypsies, beggars and gangs found loitering in hallways, as well as hookers and pimps. The brief section devoted to prostitution abolishes a previous distinction between active and passive soliciting to create a new arrestable offense. Police will be able to detain people they...
...loya jirgas?the first was in 1709, the latest in 1964?have produced good results. But cracks are already showing in the latest venture. The leadership of the Northern Alliance is committed to it, but the group's various factions are not of one mind. "It's just a ragbag of different forces," a senior British official says of the alliance. He says its Uzbek faction rejects the group's new military commander, General Mohammed Fahim, successor to the charismatic Ahmed Shah Massoud, who was assassinated Sept. 9. The Uzbeks do support a loya jirga, as do some other commanders...
...Milosevic to the Hague, calling the war-crimes tribunal an illegitimate instrument of U.S. hypocrisy. He was unsullied by Serbia's pervasive corruption. He did not cozy up to Milosevic as better-known opposition leaders had. "I've never even met him personally," he has said. When the ideological ragbag of Milosevic opponents looked around for someone to run, they picked Kostunica as the one who could...
...years, as reconstructed with rarely seen footage and recollected by the very Fab Four--John from old snippets, of course, the others in recent interviews, individually and together. The CD package, the first of three, promises choice nuggets as well. "It won't be, as some feared, just a ragbag of rejects," says Ian MacDonald, author of Revolution in the Head, a close study of the group's music. "It'll be the vital concluding installment of the Beatles' story in sound. It'll sell squillions...