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...Asymptote--otherwise known as Hani Rashid, 45, and Lise Anne Couture, 44--the ultimate challenge is connecting the digital world to the one we actually live in. The firm has attempted this with several projects, and perhaps its purest piece of digi-tecture is the Guggenheim Virtual Museum: an Internet-only gallery that would enable art lovers anywhere to swoop through interlocking coils and interact with the Guggenheim's collection of digital art. "Would," that is, because the museum, in a funding crunch, has yet to put up the website for public viewing...
...HAJI RASHID, elderly Afghan migrant to Holland, arriving in Kabul on the first civilian flight from Western Europe to Afghanistan since the Soviet Union invaded...
...have to write it down on their own paper. The dozen or so policemen there complain about their pay ($20 for the past month), their lack of firepower and patrol cars, even the look of the new uniforms. "It's like we're schoolboys," says 2nd Lieut. Khalil Kamar Rashid. The U.S. and the residents of Baghdad need them to grow up in a hurry. --By Romesh Ratnesar/Baghdad
...boardroom when Carney, the U.S. adviser, walked in, downed a glass of sweet tea and announced something unthinkable under Saddam's rule: a free election. Carney, a former ambassador to Sudan and Haiti, had discovered that the man the U.S. had put in charge, ex-deputy minister Ahmed Rashid Gailini, was disliked by many of his subordinates for his ties to Saddam's regime. Rather than dismiss Gailini, Carney had persuaded him to step down and put his name up for re-election against another candidate, Mohammed Abdul Mujib, a ministry official in charge of investment. Carney...
...December 2001, when terrorists tried to blow up India's parliament building. And it revived long dormant hopes that India and Pakistan might resume a dialogue about Kashmir, the subcontinent's most destabilizing issue. "Talks will begin very soon," vowed Pakistan's Minister for Information and Broadcasting Sheikh Rashid Ahmed...