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...hardscrabble village conjured up by common perceptions of extremist origins. It straddles a paved road about 2 1?2 hours' drive from Lahore, and two new gas stations mark the village boundaries. Beyond those are factories and fertile farmland. There is even BlackBerry service. But it is, undeniably, the sort of place that fosters frustration. Feudal landlords own the farmland, and villagers feel trapped by the status they are born into. The good life is tantalizingly close, yet for most residents still unattainable. For men like Qasab, one of the best ways out is jihad. "In a developing country, youngsters...
...says Steinberg, "was sort of a regulatory control that was supposed to empower patients by providing more information to them, which is great in it's intent. I think it proved more detrimental than positive because it made [some practices] more aggressive...
...mathematician can show anyone who has a minute's time that the markets can go down for a nearly infinite number of days if the decreases get smaller and smaller. For investors who want to get a small fraction of their investments back sometime in the next decade this sort of academic argument may be didactic, but it has no practical use. What is likely to happen to the market is that it will fall another 15% or 20% and then trade sideways, perhaps for several years. That is what happened from 1965 to 1981.There were peaks and troughs during...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Chinese Student Association, applauded the choice of Kim and the response by the Dartmouth community. “I think the message was written in poor taste,” he said. “But I have faith that the Dartmouth community knows that this sort of joke is just not as effective in this age of diversity.” On the day the e-mail was sent out, interns from Dartmouth’s Pan Asian Council and representatives from the Inter-Community Council, Diversity Peer Advisor interns, and a member of the GGMM held...
...even Agency veterans winced at the latest bombshell from Gitmo: the revelation that the CIA destroyed 92 videotapes that may have shown detainees being subjected to harsh interrogation techniques. "It would have been my instinct to say that these [videotapes] are the sort of thing we have to keep," says Ford...