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...links between Iraq and the Sept. 11 conspirators are elusive, links to al-Qaeda may not be. In the past three years, an armed group of Islamic extremists now known as Ansar al-Islam, led in part by a suspected Iraqi intelligence agent, Abu Wa'el, has waged a terror campaign in Kurdistan. Most recently, in April, three militants tried to kill the Prime Minister of eastern Kurdistan just as a State Department official was visiting the region. "It was a message to the U.S.," says a Kurdish investigator. Many of the 700 to 800 members of the group were...
...literary festival. And the violence that shocked Ahmadabad and Ayodhya the following week made a mockery of blind optimism. Yet in certain ways, I thought, India can be not only the counter-Japan it's always seemed to be, but, in parts a corrective to Japan. The "Land of Wa" famously, ideally, functions like an orchestra in which everyone knows her part in a score designed to present a public harmony; India, by contrast, is a riot of competing interests in which everyone is flying off in a different direction. Yet what this also means is that when the government...
...wedding itself is a brief procedure, with vows short and to the point. (“Maria, I love you’s, I adoh-wa you’s,” Joey intones vacantly, at which point his funereally-clad mother-in-law bitterly screams, “And you believe him?”) The show breaks briefly while the audience joins a buffet line near the edge of the bar, but even there, no one is safe from harassment. An audience member who declined to eat ziti noodles topped with meat sauce instantly drew...
Hometown: Seattle, WA...
...discipline, spirit and selflessness reflected in the modern-day professional system, which began in 1935. The 12 teams of the Central and Pacific leagues draw more than 22 million fans a year. But because of a compliant union, which refuses to strike (that would disrupt social harmony, or wa), and restrictions that keep neutral salary arbiters and sports agents at arm's length, players are underpaid and underrepresented. They are expected to endure brutal workouts, which include dawn-to-dusk training camps held in the freezing cold, and to obey petty rules that are more befitting a military academy. During...