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...rescued from a Taliban ambush by U.S. choppers early last week, according to the Pentagon. The U.S. hopes that Karzai will help persuade the Pashtun not to side with the Taliban against the Uzbeks, Tajiks and Hazaras. But for that to happen, Washington must rein in the worst excesses of their ethnic foes, once Northern Alliance fighters sweep into the Pashtun tribal lands...
...surprise, surprise! Hollywood marketers are shrewd. Wary of tainting the (so far) starry-eyed image of Harry as innocent youth, unblemished by hype, Warner Bros. is exercising an extremely tight rein on movie marketing—choosing only Coca-Cola as their global licensing partner. Despite the preponderance of Potter products in (and being snatched from) stores, the studio has also shielded Radcliffe and his cohorts from press and paparazzi—the confidentiality surrounding the cast and crew of Sorcerer’s Stone puts Kubrick’s and Spielberg’s top-secret A.I. to shame...
...over. Following a series of managerial missteps, Nasser had been taking heat from the Ford board since March. Even before chairman William Clay Ford Jr. announced the creation of an executive office of the chairman in July, there had been heated discussion over how - not whether - to rein Nasser in. But the timing was sensitive. Bill Ford, the first family member to run the company since his uncle Henry retired in 1979, needed the broad support of management and, more important, Wall Street...
...militia leader Atif Abbayat who was killed last Thursday, for example, had been arrested by the PA only weeks earlier, but was then released after his supporters threatened to resume firing on the Israeli neighborhood of Gilo. The U.S. has repeatedly called on Arafat to take stronger steps to rein in militants...
...album gets more complex. The best expression of Ozo’s no-passport-needed, pan-global style is the groovy “1234,” on which De La Soul slides in perfectly amongst the brass stabs and chunky guitar. The rhythm section has to rein in their polyrhythmic tendencies a little, but the momentum is great. At times Ozo sound, to their credit, a bit like a sublimely rejuvenated and bass-heavy Buena Vista Social Club, with lugubrious vocal lines even in the midst of relentlessly upbeat songs like “Guerrillero...