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...jittery regime in Pakistan, which insists on empowering some of its ethnic Pashtun brothers from the southern part of its ravaged neighbor, who make up most of the Taliban, as a counterweight to its foes in the Northern Alliance. A vestigial Taliban may also give any potentially disaffected rank-and-file members some alternative to going down with the ship. As Secretary Powell put it last week, "You can't ethnically cleanse Afghanistan after this is over. You can't export them." All you can hope for, perhaps, is that Afghanistan has a good, enduring reason to halt its most...
...recent bilateral treaties with Jordan and Vietnam could bring quicker benefits and have attracted widespread attention as breakthroughs into the Arab world and the land of a former foe. But their dollar value is small: Vietnam and Jordan rank 70th and 98th among U.S. trade partners...
...Network’s new show, “Rank,” named George Clooney the sexiest man alive on Sunday. The next episode, which will feature the scariest movies of all time, is airing on Halloween, which...
...That [type of] study is the reason that many private schools do not rank their students,” Manella said. Greenwich Academy, whose graduating class is usually about 50, prefers to rely on recommendation letters written by teachers who have closely followed students throughout their high school careers, rather than providing class rank for college applications...
...part, Russian President Vladimir Putin is also betting on the U.S. in its fight against terrorism. His spirited support for cooperation, for letting American troops into what Russia has for centuries seen as its backyard, has provoked unease among many within the rank and file of the Russian military and government. "There exists a two-tier attitude toward the U.S. presence," says Alexei Malashenko, scholar-in-residence at the Carnegie Moscow Center. "Explicitly, Russian leaders quite sincerely welcome the antiterrorist operation in the area. Implicitly, they fear that the U.S. has come there to stay...