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...inspectors who are scheduled to begin arriving in Iraq this week will have some weapons of their own. They wield more advanced equipment, better intelligence and an all-access mandate to search sites previously kept off limits--not to mention a credible threat of military retaliation if Iraq fails to comply. Even as the inspectors have upgraded their technology and know-how, of course, Saddam has spent the past four years conjuring new ways of keeping his most prized weapons out of reach. "The case of Iraq has stimulated all these new [inspection] techniques," chief weapons inspector Hans Blix...
...Even then, Musharraf's candidate for Prime Minister only squeaked through?by a single vote. Mir Zafrullah Khan Jamali, 58, is a tribal chieftain from Baluchistan and a former national field hockey player, who is now expected to wield a big stick against the politicians on the general's behalf. It is unlikely that Jamali, a bearish, jovial man, will be able to do so. He won just 172 of the 329 votes cast. And even that thinnest of margins was suspect: a rule forbidding party defections was waived at Musharraf's behest, so that 10 PPP legislators could switch...
...First Lady Laura Bush urged Americans in her radio address last November to remember that “the fight against terrorism is also a fight for the rights and dignity of women.” Women activists have constantly complained that warlords and Islamic fundamentalists continue to unfairly wield power, even within the new government. Hundreds of women attended the emergency grand council or loya jirga general assembly last June, but women were discouraged from speaking and only three were elected. According to participants, warlords were given 30 minutes to speak while women were given only five minutes after...
...contradicting the unanimous recommendations of their departments, stunning their colleagues and leaving no room for appeal. The excessive secrecy in every decision makes it easy for those who are denied tenure to point fingers at a faceless “ad hoc committee,” a groups that wield immense power advising the president on tenure recommendations but has no public accountability...
...does Aa Gym pretend that he doesn't already wield serious clout. "I could push 100,000 people from the Istiqlal Mosque in Jakarta (where he preaches once a month) to the U.S. embassy. It would take 10 minutes to walk, and it would be very difficult for the police to stop them. With God's will I could use that power. But I won't. My program is for Indonesians to control themselves, to not be emotional. If we are emotional we have problems...