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...odd situation in Angurada has its roots in the Taliban period. When the Taliban controlled Afghanistan, one of its regional leaders, for reasons unclear, allowed Pakistan's Frontier Corps, a poorly paid militia that operates in the tribal areas bordering Afghanistan, to set up a checkpoint across the border. Angurada stands on the Afghan side of the international border, but it falls on the Pakistani side of a boundary that Pakistanis tend to prefer: the Durand Line, which in 1893 separated Afghanistan from what was then part of British India...
...odd that we make so much fuss about the influence of money in politics and so little about an even older form of privilege: blood--or marriage. Two years ago, Jon Corzine of New Jersey spent $60 million of his own money to win a Senate seat. Others have tried to do it on $40 million or less and failed. Clearly, if your goal is to be a Senator, being the son of a Senator is equivalent to having something like $50 million. Like money, blood may not be enough to guarantee victory, but it's better than money...
...brainer 'we can all do this' stuff." Then as a test, Cornell added a melodic four-chord bridge to the song Light My Way. "When nobody freaked out, I knew we were a band." Knowing you're a band and convincing listeners are two different things. It's odd hearing Cornell, one of the few rock singers who can belt it out high and clear, fight through Morello's machine-gun fuzz on Cochise. And when Cornell goes mellow on Hypnotize, you just presume Morello would rather be fret dancing. But after a few spins, the vestigial sounds of Audioslave...
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...doubt him. He became infamous for the seizure of over 1,000 hostages in the southern Russian town of Budennovsk in 1995 - a raid from which he did not expect to return, though he did manage to escape with most of his men and a human shield of 100-odd hostages who were later released. Basayev may feel this is a good time for martyrdom. He lost a leg in early 2000, leading his men through a minefield, and many of his family and most of his comrades are dead. Alpha will now hunt Basayev on his home turf...