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...Close. He was actually in Guant?namo Bay, Cuba, as a guest of the U.S. military. How did Khan, a homeopathic doctor who (according to his family) had never picked up a gun, find himself 9,600 kilometers from home locked inside a razor-wired stockade? Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has described Guant?namo's prisoners as "hard-core, well-trained terrorists." But according to his family and friends, Khan was nothing more than a fool in love, caught in the wrong place at the wrong time...
...well" means something different for Canongate than it does for any other house. Byng reedited the early chapters of Pi with Martel, and for Snowblind, a book by Robert Sabbag about drug smuggling, he produced a limited edition, complete with a Damien Hirst drug kit - mirror, razor blade and $100 bill. Invited to Buckingham Palace for a literary evening, Byng talked his way into an introduction to the Queen and presented her with a volume, drug kit and all. "I asked her if it could be included in the Royal Collection," Byng recalls. "She takes out the $100 bill...
...vowed to fight the bills in parliament where, with the support of a splinter party, it holds a razor-thin majority. Party chairman Lien Chan blasted the proposed legislation as an act of "political liquidation" designed to deflect attention away from Taiwan's stalled economy and Chen's inability to establish meaningful dialogue with the nation's chief adversary, China...
...trouble for Democrats, who have both eyes trained on a closely divided Congress and a razor-thin majority in the U.S. Senate, began Monday afternoon. First, Torricelli announced he was dropping out of the race for his seat, citing persistent accusations of ethics violations, including charges that he took improper gifts from contributors. Then, his would-be replacements signaled they had no interest in taking the reins. As the veteran Senator appeared before the press Monday afternoon, you could practically hear the party elders hyperventilating in the background...
...trouble for Democrats, who have both eyes trained on a closely divided Congress and a razor-thin majority in the U.S. Senate, began Monday afternoon. First, Sen. Torricelli announced he was dropping out of the race for his seat, citing persistent accusations of ethics violations, including charges that he took improper gifts from contributors. Then, his would-be replacements signaled they had no interest in taking the reins. By Tuesday morning, the ranks of possible candidates had shrunk dramatically. U.S. Rep. Robert Menendez, the presumed front-runner, told party elders he wasn't interested, saying he prefers to stay...