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...gone down, and now the starving Taliban can eat. A man named Amanullah beckons us into his office, a mud-walled room with a table, an iron passport stamper, floor mats, a lopsided bed and three murals he has painted of mountains and a Muslim saint's tomb. He starts eating from a rusty can and offers it around. I offer my bag of raisins. "Look," he says with a grin, "all we ever eat around here are raisins. Do you have anything else...
...NORM STAMPER Seattle police chief quits after WTO fiasco. Picture Barney Fife with a latte
...Wednesday, police arrested about 500 demonstrators, dragging many of them feet-first into buses and speeding them off to detention centers, where some of them idly communicated among themselves by flashing in Morse code with their laser pens. Schell and his police chief, Norm Stamper, seemed taken by surprise by the calamity caused by the demonstration. If so, they were the only ones. Protest leaders had long promised as much, and websites have been bubbling for months about the gathering. Hundreds of would-be demonstrators attended camps in civil disobedience this summer in preparation. In a building not far from...
Witnesses to the Seattle shooting said they had never seen the gunman before, but police chief Norm Stamper called it "a deliberate, calculated act." Area schools under lockdown were reopened the day after the shooting, but with the suspect still at large over the weekend, police urged residents to use extra caution. They were not, however, encouraged to stay home from work...
...Northwest was forced to match. Also aiding Pro Air's cause are hassle-free fares--no advance booking or Saturday-night stays required--to New York City; Philadelphia; Chicago; Baltimore, Md.; Orlando, Fla; Atlanta; and Indianapolis. "We're on the edge of a revolution out here," boasts Stamper, 50, a former aviation lawyer. "All over the country, people are fed up with getting on planes and finding out that the person next to them paid one-tenth of what they paid...