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...Musharraf needs the ISI's loyalty for his own survival. Popular anger against America runs high in Pakistan because of civilian casualties caused by U.S. bombing in Afghanistan and Washington's stalwart support of Israel in its conflict with the Palestinians, who, like most Pakistanis, are mainly Muslims. With Musharraf firmly allied with Washington, the fury extends to him as well. Western diplomats say the threat of assassination is ever present for Musharraf. He packs a silver-plated derringer in his chest pocket and always leaves his presidential office in an armor-plated Mercedes, using two others as decoys...
...Where'd it come from? The government, both from a vigorously rate-cutting Fed and a tentatively tax-cutting Congress. Consumers, whose stalwart spending habits grew at an annual 3.5 percent pace even after all the good car-buying deals were gone. And businesses, which continued to slash inventories by $36.2 billion in Q1 - but not nearly as much as in the fourth quarter, when they unloaded a record $119.3 billion...
...India's eastern state of Orissa holds the urban nuisances in greater esteem. Since the end of World War II, the Orissa police department has employed some 600 trained pigeons as official messengers. Capable of ferrying vital letters at up to 80 km/h to remote police outposts, the stalwart birds proved more reliable than the region's hopelessly erratic telephone network, especially during cyclone season when high winds frequently downed lines. But, as successful as the pigeon program has proved, it's soon to be phased out in favor of e-mail. Carrier pigeons "have no place in this advanced...
Sheffield, then a junior, had not been one of the more heavily used Crimson pitchers that year. On a team with such standouts as classmates Ben Crockett and Justin Nyweide along with stalwart staff ace John Birtwell ’01, Sheffield saw limited action. He threw in seven games last year and started only one, picking up a win and a save in 16 total innings. Sheffield had seen even less time the previous season...
...Israel’s occupation of his headquarters in Ramallah, Arafat has been isolated on a single floor, at times without electricity. The photograph of Arafat, sitting in the dark, with cell phone in hand and sidearm on the desk before him, makes one wonder if perhaps the stalwart leader of the Palestinian national movement hasn’t finally backed himself into a corner from which no escape is possible. On the heels of his plea for help, however, the rest of the world has raced to Arafat’s aid, at least verbally...