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Terror struck in the streets of Tashkent last week, but you'd never know it from the local media. The attacks were swift and bloody, and scattered across the city, from the Chorsu market near the center to the outer suburbs. Their impact was heightened by the government's near-total news blackout. The biggest firefight took place in the Yalangach district, about 3 km from Uzbek President Islam Karimov's residence. Government officials claim 20 terrorists were cornered and quickly blew themselves up, but locals say the guerrillas were fewer in number, and resisted the police for over...
...Garth Pancake (J.K. Simmons), a militant liberal, serenely overconfident of his skill with powder and fuses and, alas, afflicted by irritable-bowel syndrome, which kicks in at inopportune moments. Oh, almost forgot to mention this--most of them have hair-trigger tempers, which do not aid them in the swift completion of their appointed nefariousness...
Following her semifinal defeat, Hall rebounded with her decisive victory over Quibell, to whom she had fallen twice this past season in intercollegiate play. The most recent time was a swift three-game loss in Yale’s 6-3 semifinal win over Harvard at February’s Howe Cup, where the Bulldogs went on to claim the national title. The other loss took four games in the Crimson’s 7-2 dual-match defeat earlier in the month...
...differently from the members of the Bush Administration, sees alliances as assets rather than burdens, sees patience as a virtue and not a weakness, sees means as being as important as ends, with Iraq exhibit A. He says he learned from Vietnam, where he served as skipper of a swift boat, that you go to war only if all other options fail and that you had better make certain you are prepared to do what it takes to succeed. Whatever his criticisms of Bush's war, Kerry says, he is committed to finishing the mission. "My exit strategy is success...
...career at Disney's annual shareholder meeting in Philadelphia last week, suffering a 43% vote of no confidence from investors. You would think it would have prompted the board to take a long, hard look at whether he was more liability than asset. But its response, while swift, was largely unsatisfying to critics: the board let Eisner retain his role as chief executive but tapped director George Mitchell to replace him as chairman--even though Mitchell himself received a 24% no-confidence vote...