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Still, the sweep was a decisive consolidation of Musharraf's power and a first step toward reversing more than two decades of Islamization in the 550,000-man army. It's now less likely anyone inside the military can sabotage or ignore Musharraf's pro-Western policies, leaving him freer to pursue his oft-stated goal of transforming Pakistan into a progressive Islamic state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pakistan: The World's Toughest Job | 10/22/2001 | See Source »

...Still, the sweep was a decisive consolidation of Musharraf's power and a first step toward reversing more than two decades of Islamization in the 550,000-man army. It's now less likely anyone inside the military can sabotage or ignore Musharraf's pro-Western policies, leaving him freer to pursue his oft-stated goal of transforming Pakistan into a progressive Islamic state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World's Toughest Job | 10/22/2001 | See Source »

...Crimson continued its sweep of success with a win in the Club Eight event on Saturday. The first of Harvard’s two boats in the event took the crown with a time of 15:18.278 while the second boat, under Charles River Rowing Association, placed fourteenth with...

Author: By Jessica T. Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Men's Heavies Pace Crew at Head of the Charles | 10/22/2001 | See Source »

...attack (see story below). Last week there were two such reports: an anthrax death in Florida and a cluster of cases of a virulent hemorrhagic fever along the Afghan-Pakistani border. Easy to forget but worth remembering is the fact that bacteria and viruses, even unconventional ones, do occasionally sweep through human hosts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Telling Disease From Terror | 10/15/2001 | See Source »

...Spanish roundup on Wednesday nabbed six Algerians suspected of running a logistical support cell for the so-called Beghal network - named after Djamel Beghal, a Franco-Algerian Muslim, bin Laden associate and network coordinator. That sweep came a day after British police apprehended three men, including Kamel Daoudi, 23, a Frenchman who escaped the Sept. 21 capture of seven co-members of the Beghal group in suburban Paris. The joint European crackdown began on Sept. 13, when Belgian and Dutch authorities apprehended six extremists said to be part of a plan to attack U.S. targets in France - including the American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Breaking A Web | 10/8/2001 | See Source »

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