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...tight security at AIT sounds more MP than M.B.A., there's a good reason. The private company--which provides Web-hosting services largely through resellers, maintaining 180,000 Web domains for 32,000 clients, including Microsoft--was founded in 1996 by CEO Clarence Briggs, 42, a tightly wound, 13-year veteran of the Army who served in Panama and the Gulf War before a knee injury ended his career. More than 80% of AIT's 160 employees also have military backgrounds, including a number who joined right after a stint at nearby Fort Bragg. Seven of the eight senior executives...
...protesters' ranks included both longtime opponents of war in general and some MPs who believe the U.S. call for military action - and the British response to that call - is a thinly veiled response to threats on oil supplies. Labour MP Alan Simpson told the Belfast News Letter, "Sadly, I think Bush will hit Iraq in much the same way that a drunk will hit a bottle. He needs to satisfy his thirst for power and oil." Simpson then dismissed Blair's report as "deeply flawed, partial and superficial," according to the paper...
...Here & There TAIWAN Is it hot in this parliament, or is it just us? On the heels of politician Chu Mei-feng's personal Sex, Lies & Videotape, yet another Taiwanese official is getting down and dainty. Popular 41-year-old MP Yu Yueh-hsia (left) will pose for the Chinese-language edition of Playboy, not naked but in a fetchingly low-cut evening gown. Yu says the magazine pursued her for two years, but it was her daughter who persuaded her to appear. She adds that she will go naked only when she turns 60. To which we can only...
...snap back to reality as a bus honks and we pass a glaring MP at the newly militarized airport. The plan is to take the next turn-around and swing back to where we started—where hopefully, the car’s owner will be waiting by the curb...
...Abdullah Syafi, a 45-year-old graduate of a Banda Aceh school of Islamic jurisprudence. Syafi recognizes the leadership-in-exile of aged GAM-founder di Tiro and his deputies. But there is also a splinter group known as the Government Council of the Free Aceh Movement, or MP-GAM in its Indonesian acronym. Led from Europe by Husaini Hasan, the MP-GAM has declared itself opposed to armed struggle and favors some form of autonomy within Indonesia. Jakarta has raised a force of several hundred Acehnese under the MP-GAM banner, paying them to operate alongside the security forces...