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...suspect him of organizing the 1999 hijacking of an Indian Airlines flight to secure the release of his brother Maulana Masood Azhar, among other prisoners, from an Indian jail. The two Azhar brothers top India's wanted-terrorist list, but Pakistan brought no charges against Abdul Rauf. Musharraf did vow to keep Masood under house arrest, but staff members at his ornate mansion in Bahawalpur say he is free to travel, give incendiary sermons against the U.S. and collect donations for the Kashmiri insurgency...
...year, Amis' nonfictional study of Josef Stalin, Koba the Dread, caused more than a few critics to conclude that the once invincible writer had begun to lose the plot. His publishers added to the fury this year by refusing to let reviewers see Yellow Dog unless they signed a vow of silence until it is safely in bookstores; some took that as a signal that the book is a dog in more than name. Tibor Fischer, whose novel Voyage to the End of the Room is to be released the same day, prematurely savaged Yellow Dog in a widely quoted...
...President Bush this week sounded a resolute vow to stay the course in Iraq, for years if necessary. But the financial and military burden of post-Saddam Iraq certainly raises the pressure on the administration to seek new agreements via the UN with allies currently reluctant to commit lives and treasure. Which suggests that this Fall, like the last one, will see the Bush administration arm-wrestling at the Security Council over its plans for Iraq...
...corporations vow they will fight any efforts to make them pay. "These suits are absurd and racially divisive," says Robert Hartwig of the Insurance Information Institute, an industry group. "Slavery was abhorrent. But should government contractors have to go back 140 years, spending millions on research and legal fees?" --By Margot Roosevelt
Meanwhile, University President Lawrence H. Summers continues to promote a series of initiatives in the pipeline for next year that would fulfill his vow to vastly strengthen the state of life science research at the University. While Summers refuses to describe the scope and nature of these initiatives, their price will be in the tens—if not hundreds—of millions of dollars...