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...than at any time since the fall of their government." These neo-Taliban number in the "thousands," according to an Afghan security official in Kabul. They operate primarily out of Pakistan, guided by many of the same men?including supreme leader Mullah Mohammed Omar?who ran Afghanistan's ultra-orthodox theocracy from 1995 through 2001, when the group harbored Osama bin Laden and lent eager support to al-Qaeda. While maintaining close ties to al-Qaeda, the Taliban have also forged a deepening alliance with Afghan warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar and his fundamentalist, vehemently anti-Western Hizb-i-Islami party, which...
...Hong Kong, radio-show personalities face less overt intimidation, but their broadcast freedom is nevertheless being threatened. Albert Cheng, a bespectacled society icon and radio host, decided last month to take indefinite leave from his ultra-popular talk show, "Teacup in a Storm," after the Broadcast Authority warned his radio station, Commercial Radio, about his on-air conduct. (Wong Yuk-man's program is carried by the same station.) The warning comes at a sensitive time, when the issue of the station's license?due for renewal next year?is still being addressed. The controversy centered on two shows this...
...that cuts across political lines. For Vajpayee, it enables a regal rise above India's noisy democracy. Last year, with his rightist rivals ascendant, Vajpayee more or less retired from public view. But after the fundamentalists reached their high-tide mark last December with the re-election of the ultra-hard-line Narendra Modi as Gujarat's Chief Minister, a chasm opened in the center of Indian politics that only Vajpayee could fill. Last month, when BJP president Venkaiah Naidu suggested that Deputy Prime Minister Advani should lead the party into a general election jointly with Vajpayee, the PM merely...
...Philips says its first buyers later this year will likely be Dutch hotels, which will also use them for pay-per-view movies and settling the bill; a home version will be available by 2005. The Mirror TV is the first commercial product from Philips' HomeLab - a two-bedroom, ultra-wired house in Eindhoven, where live-in guests test-run the company's latest gadgets. Coming soon: a stereo that recognizes the tune you're humming and plays the song. Come to think of it, that might be handy in the bath, too. - By Michael Brunton...
...vineyards typically offer an average of seven varietals ranging in price from $8.99 to $30, depending on the class of wine. But Raphael, one of the newer, snazzier wineries along Route 25, presses a higher-priced ultra-premium Merlot (about $40 a bottle). Here you'll find a tasting room and wine cellar inside a 28,000-sq.-ft. manse built in the style of an Italian monastery--a perfect place for big events...