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...Siraj and his neighbors, who are scared they could be next. "A man doesn't know if he'll make it home safely these days," says a nearby shopkeeper. Siraj, who fought against the Pakistanis in the 1971 war of liberation that created Bangladesh, summarizes the situation with a touch of bitter irony: "In 1971, the Pakistanis were terrified of us. But now we're the ones who are terrified inside our own country...
...Capital Research and Management. “I have known Bob Rubin since back in the day, when he was beginning at Goldman Sachs and over the years, my company has done a lot of business with them,” Rothenberg said. He added that he lost touch with Rubin when Rubin joined the Clinton Administration as treasury secretary...
Stern’s talk is many things—vulgar, offensive and sometimes disparaging of other cultures—but one thing it’s not, is out of touch. Since the destruction of the World Trade Center, the substance of his political comments has fluctuated in sync with the Bush administration’s approval ratings. In the fall of 2001 and the winter of 2002, he alternated fervent celebrations of the courageous rescue workers who gave their lives with crude, reproachful generalizations directed at the loathed “towel-heads...
...remaining stations into an NPR fundraiser-style segment. And this drive won’t be over until the Bible-toting administration gets out of Stern’s way—and out of everyone else’s, for that matter. Unless Bush keeps in touch with what really matters to his people, as he did for two years and as Stern has to this day, he’ll have to take his job creation plans with him back to Crawford...
...lore has it that to foil concealed recording devices, Massino went so far as to order his men never to utter his name during a conversation and instead to touch one of their ears to indicate Big Joey. It was a bit of theater he borrowed from Gigante, whose cronies used to tap their chin to signify their boss. The Bonannos' Old-World code of discipline was such that until recently not a single "made guy" (ranking gang member) had ever cooperated with law enforcers. As the other bosses bunked down in prison, that helped the Bonannos become...