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...have since detained new suspects, who will probably also be tried for Pearl's murder. One of the suspects, Fazal Karim, has allegedly confessed to beheading Pearl at a farmhouse on the outskirts of Karachi, although he has not been formally charged. Through wiretaps and the fbi's growing ring of informants ("Money talks," says a Pakistani official with a grin), investigators have tracked communications between Karim and two suspects arrested on July 8 for attempting to kill Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf in April. The two accused, Mohammed Imran and Mohammed Hanif, confessed they parked a pickup truck loaded with...
...acid-test day at the Pakistan Military Academy, an event dreaded by every student. For nearly two years, the cadets have learned to run a mile in six minutes, perform endless rounds of sit-ups and push-ups, climb into a boxing ring to battle their fellow junior officers. The Acid Test is the most grueling exercise of all. The academy is in the Himalayan foothills north of Islamabad, but the weather is still brutal: 95[degree]F by midday. First the cadets have to traverse a mountain carrying logs on their shoulders. Then they run nine miles with full...
...springs from his training at the academy. All cadets attend lectures on governance. Arts majors take a political-science course studying Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Indian strategist Chanakya, Arab historian Ibn Khaldun and Pakistani poet Muhammad Iqbal. But the average soldier learns more in the mess hall and the boxing ring than from this tutoring in political theory. "Phhh," sneers Major General Hamid Rab Nawaz, the academy's commandant. "I never studied political science myself...
...with a golden retriever and "a rude green parrot." What a difference royalties make. "If I see something I like, I can buy it," she marvels. "I have more money than time now. I don't always have to look for the best buy." (One such purchase: a diamond ring from Tiffany's.) In short, says Evanovich, turning out best sellers "allows you to have different priorities." But for her, one priority remains: writing book nine...
...inaugurated the new Millennium Quarter, an area that was once Manchester's medieval heart that long ago stopped beating. Later this month the Commonwealth Games will begin with an opening ceremony in the $157 million City of Manchester Stadium, with its sweeping curved roof held up by a ring of masts, designed by Arup Associates. All this activity culminates in neighboring Trafford, with Daniel Libeskind's new Imperial War Museum North. This bold structure, which looks like three pieces of a shattered globe, is the first completed building in Britain designed by Libeskind, whose recent works include Berlin's widely...