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...16th century and the British in the 19th and 20th centuries. Last month, it was the Pakistani army's turn. In an April 17 ceremony, Pakistani Lieut. General Safdar Hussain signed a truce with the leaders of the tribal forces, ending a brief, bloody and largely ineffective campaign to root out extremist militants and terrorists hiding among sympathizers in Waziristan's villages. Hussain showed up for the cease-fire ceremony unarmed, as agreed. But if the Pakistani officer expected his adversaries to reciprocate by laying down their weapons, he was disappointed. Accompanied by some 7,000 defiant tribesmen, some waving...
...guarantee from tribal leaders that "non-Pakistanis"--Arabs, Chechens and Uzbeks--would no longer cross from Waziristan to ambush U.S. troops in Afghanistan. But local officials in Waziristan say that promise is not enforceable. What's more, the truce raises doubts about the resolve of the Pakistanis to root out al-Qaeda fugitives from the tribal areas. Said a U.S. military spokesman in Kabul: "At the end of the day, we expect Pakistani action there." --By Tim McGirk and Ghulam Hasnain
...Harvard, land of post-adolescent, pre-yuppie conformity, such a holistic view may not take root. McCormick sees the campus as a world of pink and green orthodoxy. “There are a ton of kids who come here who have been exposed to really preppy environments,” she says. “Harvard exacerbates that to the extreme.” McCormick cites the abundance of Nantucket red and popped collars as evidence to her assertions...
...excited to get this job," Borayev says. "It uses my language, and it's in the same field as my degree." He worked happily as a contract employee for almost two years until this spring, when a tax bill close to $2,000 and a $1,000 emergency root canal pushed the drawbacks of perma-temping right in his face. "Of course I'd really rather have all the benefits I hear people talking about, since I work pretty much full time here," Borayev says. "I'll keep working at this, and hopefully they might take me as a full...
...sign of democracy's failure to take root in the Arab world is the way authoritarian regimes muzzle the local media. So when the al-Jazeera satellite channel began its broadcasts in 1996 from the Persian Gulf state of Qatar, more than a digital revolution was born. For the first time, Arabs were able to watch news programs and talk shows in their own language and assembled by independent journalists rather than by government propagandists...