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...Muramza, 24, fought the Northern Alliance in and around Kabul. Asked who his commander was, he points to a heavy-breathing bear of a man, who angrily responds, "Why did you tell them that?" Several Tanali men are being held at Sheberghan prison in the north, and several more died in the fighting in Mazar-i-Sharif. One who made it home is Nurzai, 24, who straggles by, carrying a blanket full of long grass over his shoulder, food for the sheep he tends. He says he was captured in Kunduz and, like thousands of other prisoners, stuffed into...
Galluccio—who has twice made a bid for a state representative seat, losing once by a razor-thin margin of fewer than 100 votes—would bear the onus of three losses in state elections if today’s election doesn?...
...share in what was then a profitable specialty, most insurers pushed down prices on medical-malpractice policies. The companies funneled premium proceeds into profitable stock and bond investments that continued to rise even as covered losses began to mount. The increase in jury awards has come just as the bear market and low interest rates have eroded the investment cushion...
...lack of a lunar atmosphere, for example, would add thousands of years to the life of data storage. And who knows? With earth-bound economic institutions in turmoil, even if we mess this planet up maybe someday we can still find an IKEA on the moon. THE BOURSE Bear market bargain Hamleys, the British toy-retailing institution, used the economic downturn to go bargain shopping, buying defunct English Teddy Bear Co. for $1.1 million. Disastrous Insurance Europe's ailing insurance industry claimed a few more casualties. Top executives at Italy's Assicurazioni Generali and Britain's Royal & Sun Alliance stepped...
...that makes Bush people wonder: If he sees the world in such terms, why hasn't he brought the same focus to bear on economics this summer...