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...SPELL: The Imperius Curse. Basically, magical mind control. Few people can resist its power, but Harry is one of them...
...Fisher, Whitman's deputy at EPA, is expected to become acting director later this month. Highly regarded within the agency, Fisher also maintains a good reputation among some prominent environmentalists. But green groups are likely to resist her nomination nonetheless, feeling she is tainted by Bush's policies. She held important posts in the Reagan and first-Bush EPAs. During the Clinton years, she managed the government affairs office for Monsanto, the chemical and biotechnology company. Fisher's candidacy is a hat-tip to her work in the agency and the civil servants below her. But it may only...
...KHAIRI JASSIM, former Iraqi army officer, on his determination to resist coalition forces...
...villages], I feel like I'm visiting a war-torn place," says Shashi Bhushan, an activist for the People's Union for Civil Liberties. The elephants are agitated because the lack of food in their own natural habitats has forced them to stray into human villages; when the locals resist, the elephants get mad. Meanwhile, the Indian government seems capable of little more than punning. "The problem is elephantine and there is no shortcut solution," says elephant-affairs official H.W. Pandey. A few days in a tree might change his tune...
...against the "Talibanization" of the province. But popular support for the change is evident: even before the law imposing Shari'a was passed, Islamic youths roamed the town of Peshawar tearing down billboards featuring images of unburqa'd women. The religious parties warned Musharraf not to interfere. "We will resist all threats," said the MMA's Secretary General, Maulana Fazlur Rehman...