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...period of several weeks. "We now have a breathing space," says a senior Bush Administration official. However, it remains unclear whether Musharraf's actions will appease India sufficiently to reverse the escalation toward war. Clearly, neither side wants to unleash its ultimate arsenals. "Nobody is going to use the weapon," says Fernandes. But, notes a State Department official, "it's a question of unintended consequences. You never knew where it would end up, and you always knew they had nuclear weapons...
...rights - if there really are such things - vulnerable to a nationalized ID card have already been trampled under the wheels of increased security, more efficient law enforcement and better business long ago. Most of them can be regained simply by paying cash - and keeping your fingerprints off the murder weapon...
...period of several weeks. "We now have a breathing space," says a senior Bush Administration official. However, it remains unclear whether Musharraf's actions will appease India sufficiently to reverse the escalation toward war. Clearly, neither side wants to unleash its ultimate arsenals. "Nobody is going to use the weapon," says Fernandes. But, notes a State Department official, "it's a question of unintended consequences. You never knew where it would end up, and you always knew they had nuclear weapons...
...Explosives are the weapon of choice for the extremely disaffected. Firearms are difficult to buy in China, but dynamite and combustible fertilizer are widely available?despite a government crackdown on the sale of incendiary material. They have found new use as a tool to exact revenge on former lovers, business partners or government officials. State newspapers have urged tense citizens to adopt a Zen-like attitude?even get professional help should they be feeling too stressed. Worried by the increased violence, the government has beefed up the police force. A dragnet has nabbed some bombers. In the northeastern city...
...Anne Frank, NBC's Uprising), an understated movie about a meeting in which Hitler's lieutenants planned the Final Solution outdid them all. Not a shot was fired, but the cool bureaucratese with which these officials rationalized mass murder showed how language can be humankind's most insidious weapon...