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...While U.S. and Asian leaders have grown increasingly alarmed at signs of al-Qaeda-linked activity in Indonesia, they've tended to avoid publicly challenging Megawati. And when U.S. sources have pointed to links between JI and al-Qaeda, the mainstream Muslim parties have cried foul and demanded that Megawati stand up to this American "propaganda." A recent TIME report caused consternation in Jakarta by revealing that the CIA interrogation of confessed al-Qaeda operative Omar al-Faruq, a Kuwaiti whose role was to liaise with Indonesian groups, had linked JI and specifically Abu Bakr Bashir, a charismatic cleric alleged...
...time of former President Neil L. Rudenstine’s retirement, administrators and faculty said that his extensive fundraising efforts meant that his successor would be able to avoid having to run a campaign early in his tenure...
...result, donor fatigue is an issue, officials say. Perhaps to avoid that problem, the Corporation and donors on the Committee on University Resources (COUR) rejected a sweeping campaign in the mold of the last one in favor of the targeted approach...
Krauthammer is correct that the U.S. has always tolerated despots but wrong that this is how we fought and won the cold war. We chose to coexist with the Soviet Union in order to avoid the mutually assured destruction of nuclear war. I would remind Bush that it was precisely because we did not attack Russia that we survived to win the cold war. GORDON R. HARRIS Williamstown, Mass...
...took to beat Pataki for the Independence Party nomination - around $3,000 a vote. He says he is prepared to spend an additional $30 million to $40 million to get elected, aiming especially at Pataki's support in the more conservative upstate counties. In addition to slashing spending to avoid a state budget collapse (a $10 billion deficit is projected by March 2004), he wants to use money the state earns from a lottery to pay for college scholarships. So far, his roughly 13% support has hurt McCall and Pataki almost equally. "The ultimate question in this race...