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Pakistan's roster of chief suspects includes operatives of Jaish-e-Muhammad and Pir Mubarak Ali Shah Gilani, the leader of Jamaat al-Fuqra, an obscure extremist group that has branches in the U.S. The group is thought to have cultivated the shoe bomber Richard Reid's incipient fanaticism while he studied Islam in Pakistan. Pearl, it turns out, had hoped to interview Gilani for a story he was developing about Reid. Last week police raided the home of Pearl's liaison to Gilani, a man who goes by the alias "Arif." But inside they found his relatives mourning...
...sabbatical in three years, it should have planned accordingly by spreading out the hires and hiring more junior faculty to pick up the slack next year. Although there’s little time left to recruit for next year, it should do what it can to fill out its roster. To alleviate the shortage in the short-term, all of the University’s undergraduates would be indebted to any of the 18 who would consider postponing their leaves...
When Alain levy was executive vice president at PolyGram records in 1989, a representative for Island Records came to see him with an offer to sell the independent label for $300 million. Levy knew that Island?s roster of popular acts, including U2 and Bob Marley, could boost PolyGram?s efforts to build market share quickly. But there was a caveat: if Levy wanted the deal, it had to be inked before the agent left the premises. Business executives negotiate for weeks, even months, before spending that kind of money. Not Levy. By 1 a.m., the deal was sealed...
...latest job will require all the business acumen and musical sense the 55-year-old Frenchman can muster. Since October he?s been chairman and CEO of recorded music at EMI, a venerable British label with a roster that includes the Beatles, Frank Sinatra and Radiohead. Despite those assets, the company?s market value of $3.5 billion is about 40% lower than a year ago. It recorded a net loss of $76.9 million in the first half ending Sept. 30 on sales of $1.5 billion, down nearly 7% from the previous year...
Samper highlights a Trinity men’s lineup that includes five of the top ten players atop the NISRA rankings. All five are foreign born. Only three of the 17 players on the Bantam roster are Americans, and of those three only one played in the top nine this weekend. Similarly, the women’s team features Amina Helal (England) and the world’s former No. 2 junior (under 19), Lynn Leong, a Malaysian. A number of the foreign-born players—including Samper and Leong—have taken years off to play squash...