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...efforts to retain Pakistan's support in the war against terror. Zafarullah Khan Jamali, 58, a tribal chieftain from Baluchistan, narrowly defeated his closest rival, a pro-Taliban preacher. But his slim, one-vote majority reeked of political bullying and dealmaking. It was an arrangement rigged outside Parliament, struck in lengthy telephone calls to an exiled politician hoping for a comeback and, a losing candidate claims, tainted by bribes and threats...
Carly Fiorina has long struck a tone of defiant self-assurance, and it's beginning to seem justified. The CEO of tech giant Hewlett-Packard proved adept at playing Wall Street hardball, leading her company's ferociously contested proxy battle to buy Compaq Computer for $19 billion. She promised big benefits from that acquisition and last week began to deliver them. HP's quarterly earnings report showed the company stemming losses in its most troubled divisions--PCs and corporate computer systems--and surpassing its cost-cutting goals. HP shares have surged 72% since early October, including 15% last week...
...young Americans are involved in the stories in a way that I'm not," he once remarked about his fans--or as he called them, "my deplorable cultus." He wondered what Americans saw in his long, deeply Anglophilic and, let's be frank, overwritten epic. But the Rings had struck a chord. The burgeoning environmental movement saw in his wasteland of Mordor a strip-mined industrial dystopia. On a deeper level, a country drowning in the moral quicksand of Vietnam and Watergate found comfort in the moral clarity of Tolkien's epic story of a just, clear war. Good...
...seats in the new legislature. About 45% of the 300,000 party members turned out, despite a Palestinian attack on a polling station in the northern city of Beit She'an, which killed six people and wounded 30. They were, one commentator said, "voting under fire." When the gunmen struck in the early afternoon, barely 30% of the voters had turned out. Worried that a low turnout might help the challenger, Sharon summoned a press conference and urged party members: "Go and vote, go and vote!" TURKMENISTAN Death Plot Foiled An apparent assassination attempt was made on Turkmenistan President Saparmurad...
...came across something the other day that struck me: an essay by Joyce, on the subject of epiphanies. He defined them as moments when the “soul of the commonest object seems to us radiant.” And so I began to wonder when it last was that anything had shone at Harvard, radiantly...