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Mohammad Sarfarz Khan strides up a short mud path to a tunnel dug into the hillside, enters and disappears. The 61-year-old Kashmiri villager is sure-footed in the gloom, feeling his way around the shelter with practiced confidence. When he reaches the inner bunker, Khan pulls a blanket around his shoulders and peers out of a small window. It is from here that, since 1989, he has watched thousands of Indian and Pakistani artillery shells describe golden arcs as they split the air of the valley below. "I suppose we were lucky," he says, of surviving 14 years...
...private competition in the 1990s. The quality of roads has improved, thanks to an ambitious "golden quadrilateral" highway-building scheme that is connecting India's four largest cities. The government has also been setting up Special Economic Zones, havens that offer speedier regulatory approvals, low taxes, guaranteed power?and shelter from socialist-era labor laws that require a company with more than 100 employees to get government permission to lay off workers...
...surprising that it took the U.S. and its allies seven months to find Saddam. Deserts are easy places to hide, especially if you have friends and loyalists who will shelter you - and a ready supply of cash (Saddam was found with $750,000 in $100 bills) to buy their silence. Using the highest-technology then available and an army tens of thousands strong, the U.S. military under Gen. "Black Jack" Pershing was never able to capture the Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa in the arroyos and badlands of Sonora after he laid waste Columbus, New Mexico in 1916. (Prosaically, Villa...
...primary, and finished second to Newsom, who until recently was the all-but-anointed heir of the term-limited Brown. Newsom, 36, was well known for his backing last year of a popular proposition dubbed Care Not Cash that sought to solve homelessness in San Francisco by offering shelter vouchers in place of welfare payments. He is endorsed by such top Democrats as Al Gore and House minority leader Nancy Pelosi of California. And he has a $3 million campaign war chest. Gonzalez has raised a mere...
...addition to the high demands of football practice, Byrd attends church weekly and volunteers regularly at the University Lutheran Church homeless shelter...