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...Movie88. "We don't have an office and an address," he says. "As long as we have people and computers, we can do it." Reached via a Malaysian cell-phone number, Tan says he's an ethnic Chinese in his early 30s who travels a lot and created his vast movie collection by copying DVDs. "I can get great movies in L.A.," he says. "Hollywood Video, Blockbuster. 20/20 has a very good, very complete collection." His site loses money, he claims, though as many as 3,000 films a day are sold on it. The problem is the cost...
...Manila's generals have known for years that the MILF is the real challenge in the region. It has a couple of hundred guerrillas on Basilan, compared to the 80 hard-core stragglers that now make up Abu Sayyaf. And on the island of Mindanao, the vast heartland of the southern Philippines, it has up to 12,000. Its dedication to carving out an Islamic state from the predominantly Catholic Philippines is real. (Abu Sayyaf traded that ambition for lucre years ago.) It's got guns, training camps, an ideology?and, it now appears, more current and substantial links...
...patrolling Iraqi skies. The problem was initial Saudi hesitation in allowing the Pentagon to use a new U.S.-built command-and-control center at P-SAB to conduct the drive against bin Laden's al-Qaeda network in Afghanistan. Known as the Combined Air Operations Center, or CAOC, the vast underground facility is manned with 300 specialists and equipped with satellite receivers, computers and secret communications. It enables commanders to direct a major war with real-time feedback on progress and setbacks. The Saudis relented, and the U.S. use of CAOC for Afghanistan has been an open secret since...
...regardless of which departments are involved, it is wrong to intentionally disseminate misinformation of any kind. The very notion of intentional deception as an official policy to encourage trust, understanding and faith in the United States is faintly ludicrous. This would put in doubt the vast amount of truthful information circulated by the all branches of the U.S. government and destroy American credibility on all levels...
...addition, both Lee and Fernandez see the future of the Harvard social scene filled with estrogen-fueled punch events and vast seas of little black dresses. Increased interest in women’s social clubs is sure to result in the formation of more female final clubs, the two say with certainty...