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...Gazi Baba, Jaish-e-Muhammad lost two other senior leaders, while India mourned Kuka Parray, a former rebel leader who switched sides. Hawks such as Indian Deputy PM Lal Krishna Advani are again vowing revenge. "We have to fight it out," he said last week. As a Srinagar civil servant lamented: "We're back to square one." - By Alex Perry. With reporting by Yusuf Jameel/Srinagar...
...recent years, the Bohemian hamlet of Jindrichovice pod Smrkem (pop. 630) has declared itself out of bounds to all uninvited employees of the Czech central government and its various subsidiaries. Signs at entrances to the village and its train station depict the crossed-out pictogram of a civil servant...
...Strolling in Golden Gate Park, Amir watches a pair of kites overhead and recalls his childhood friend and servant, Hassan, who is a Hazara, one of Afghanistan's persecuted minorities. The boys are inseparable, but their friendship is fraught with tension. Amir is quiet, bookish and jealous of the attention his father bestows on the athletic, courageous Hassan. Angry and frustrated, he plays cruel jokes on his friend, guiltily justifying them on the basis of Hassan's low status: "Because history isn't easy to overcome. I was a Pashtun and he was a Hazara, and nothing was ever going...
...with his wrist slit. Kelly had been the source for bbc correspondent Andrew Gilligan's story about the government "sexing up" the document, and Kelly admitted to his boss that he had met the journalist (although he was vague about what he had told Gilligan). Kelly, as a civil servant, was supposed to brief journalists on technical matters only, but he expected his confession to be kept confidential and was horrified to have his name nudged into the open by the government - a tactic Campbell blamed on the Defense Ministry, whose boss, Geoff Hoon, may end up being Downing Street...
DIED. COLIN MCMILLAN, 67, oil executive nominated in May by President Bush to be Secretary of the Navy; at his 55,000-acre ranch in Otero County, N.M. McMillan, who was awaiting confirmation and was called a "public servant and patriot" by Bush, had recently had a recurrence of cancer...