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...Dostum brought the Najibullah regime down when he mutinied in 1992 and joined forces with the northern mujahedin. He and his cohort seized Mazar and set up their Jombesh. The following years raised to national art forms both the alliance of convenience and the stab in the back, and Dostum outperformed the rest. He moved in and out of alliances with Ahmed Shah Massoud, then the Jamiat commander; with Massoud's arch-enemy, the Islamist radical Gulbuddin Hekmatyar; and finally with the ultra-fundamentalist Taliban, enemy of both. Meanwhile, differences of policy and personality at the top of the Jombesh...
...Merely collecting such evidence is increasingly perilous. The New York City-based Human Rights Watch claims humanitarian workers are now deliberately targeted by Aceh's military and police. Two FP HAM volunteers were found dead last year, one with his hands and legs tied, and his body perforated with stab marks. Whenever Indonesia's unity is perceived to be under threat, humanitarian concerns are automatically overridden by the military imperative to crush the enemy at all costs?and by any method. As a slogan daubed on a military bunker in Aceh puts it: We love peace?but we love unity...
...said, produced by the Toney Penna six-iron that police say came from a set of clubs owned by the defendant's mother. Carver said the great force of the blows pierced the girl's skull and brain and that one blow was so sharp and piercing, virtually a stab, that it dragged a lock of her hair through one side of the neck and out the other. As many as nine blows may have been delivered, said Carver. "The assumption I am making," he announced, "is that only one club was used...
...took its stab Wednesday at trying to rebuild the wall between analysts and investment bankers, announcing new rules barring Wall Street firms from using (and compensating) their analysts as investment-banking shills and upping the disclosure requirements for analysts' reports and public appearances. Other proposed prohibitions include an analyst owning the stocks he covers, and the issuing of reports by firms while they're closing related investment-banking deals...
...Berlin's "Swanee Shuffle" (using exactly the leg and hip moves that would make Elvis Presley a star) quickly lures Zekiel, a naive sharecropper, into her arms and, just as quickly, into a loaded dice game run by her no-good lover. Chick then gets religion and makes a stab at domesticity, but her noble aims don't suit a body designed for hot lovin' and a soul drenched in deceit...