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...deadly highway shoot-out was just one of many troubling signs that al-Qaeda has found a new home--in Pakistan. While the U.S. and coalition forces continue to squeeze al-Qaeda inside Afghanistan, thousands of militants have slipped across the border since last winter. Officials estimate that, altogether, more than 3,500 al-Qaeda operatives and their Pakistani comrades are hunkered down in the tribal belt along the Afghan border and in the sprawling cities of Karachi and Peshawar, sheltered by homegrown extremists. Since December, Pakistani authorities working with U.S. intelligence agents have caught more than 380 suspected...
...million on the Arabian Sea. Diplomats say that the Qaeda fugitives who reached Karachi late last year "were not living in slum areas" but preferred high-rent districts where money buys high-walled privacy. Some were believed to have hidden in posh safe houses for much of the winter. But since then, they have scattered again. Says a senior Pakistani official: "They don't like to keep in one place. They're in lower-class neighborhoods, middle class, everywhere." Karachi authorities say that raids of militants' hideouts and homes in recent weeks have uncovered huge stashes of Kalashnikovs, rockets...
...something, you stopped it. Oh, a good audit was a beautiful thing." Al Bows, 88, retired Andersen senior partner, on accountancy when Arthur Andersen hired him in 1935 "It looks to me like spring, when the snow melts and you see the dog shit that's been there all winter." John Malone, chairman of Liberty Media, on the scandals rocking corporate America "Greed is not an issue of business, it's an issue of human beings." Alan Greenspan, U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman, on the causes of the stock market bubble
...daughter and follows an American book’s advice about eating according to one of the four food groups it delineates. She was shocked I hadn’t heard of the diet guide. These American contributions to modern Russia make the McDonald’s near the Winter Palace seem like a positive cultural addition...
...second, perhaps more important to the success of the movie, is its brilliantly calculated style. The sun never shines during its first half. It's all winter light, pelting rain, dimly lit mansions--superbly realized by the great cinematographer Conrad Hall. But as the Sullivans scurry across the lonely Midwestern flats and as the lifelong silence between father and son begins to lift, so does the surrounding darkness. That Hanks at last finds redemption--that his son finally finds what's best in his father's nature--is an irony that is broadly but beautifully stated...