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...Ansar al-Islam as the organizational nexus that ties al-Qaeda to Baghdad. The group has existed in various forms since the 1990s, when its leader, an Islamic cleric named Najmadin Fatah who goes by the nom de guerre Mullah Krekar, took inspiration from Afghan mujahedin to launch a rebellion against the two feuding secular factions that divvy up Iraqi Kurdistan. Krekar, who carries a Norwegian passport, is a veteran of the mujahedin known for his ruthlessness. "He is not normal," says a Kurdish intelligence official. "He enjoys killing people...
...beverages lure underage drinkers to the hard stuff, as critics say? "The ads feature heavy party scenes with lots of quick, MTV-inspired movements and things that adults wouldn't do," says George Hacker of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a consumer-advocacy group. "Themes of rebellion and getting around authority subtly suggest underage drinking." But in June the Federal Trade Commission found no evidence that these ads target minors. And spirit makers insist that they advertise responsibly on shows watched mostly by adults...
...veers from history to biology to autobiography. But in the end Twigger's numerous digressions are worth the trip--like his set piece on the 11,000-volume Yung Lo Ta Tien encyclopedia, which contained the totality of Chinese culture before it was burned in the 1900 Boxer Rebellion. As every good traveler knows, some roads shouldn't be missed just because they don't lead anywhere...
Many children decide on their own to become vegetarians and are declaring their preference at ever more precocious ages; it's often their first act of domestic rebellion. But a youngster is at a disadvantage insisting on a rigorous cuisine before he or she can cook food--or buy it or even read--and when the one whose menu is challenged is the parent: nurturer, disciplinarian and executive chef. Alicia Hurtado of Oak Park, Ill., has been a vegetarian half her life--she's 8 now--and mother Cheryle mostly indulges her daughter's diet. Still, Mom occasionally sneaks...
...cultural exception" dead, his country's media and political establishment turned against him. Messier further alienated his countrymen by publicly firing Pierre Lescure, long-time president of subsidiary Canal Plus, just weeks after giving Lescure two years to reverse the pay TV station's losses. The move provoked open rebellion by the channel's staff and increasing suspicion that Messier was preparing austerity measures to include slashing Canal Plus' funding of French cinema - thus ending its central role in preserving the cultural exception he had declared dead. Messier certainly had reason to economize. In March Vivendi revealed 2001 losses...