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...could have predicted that foot scrubbers would bring big change to a small village in Pakistan? Ann Thariani's fascination with handcrafted terra-cotta foot scrubbers began when she lived in Karachi with her Pakistani architect husband Kumy and led them to start a company, Gilden Tree. Sales of the product skyrocketed, but the women who made the scrubbers were not the only beneficiaries. The Tharianis decided to pay to educate the women's offspring, with one challenging stipulation: the girls, who often stay at home in rural Pakistan, had to go to school with the boys. "Everything Gilden Tree...
...about his newly schooled daughter, "kind of with mock annoyance, 'That daughter of mine, she's always got her nose in a book.' That was a tectonic shift in these people's lives. These are no longer families of laborers. They're now educated families." The Tharianis--and the Pakistani girls--are the winners...
...needs bin Laden for his credibility," says a U.S. intelligence analyst. "Bin Laden needs al-Zarqawi because he is doing the real work." But the celebrity al-Zarqawi has gained through his reign of terror in Iraq has marginalized bin Laden and shrunk his circle of loyalists. A senior Pakistani intelligence officer says "several hundred" al-Qaeda jihadis, spurred by al-Zarqawi's attacks on U.S. troops, left Afghanistan for Iraq in two waves, one via the gulf and the other across the Iran-Turkmenistan border; scores were killed in Iraq, and many fell in the battle of Fallujah...
...Relief Coalition. According to Director of the HCC Jack P. McCambridge ’06, less than 20 percent of the proceeds will go to the production costs of the show—sound, lighting, hospitality, and personnel services. The rest will go directly to the Edhi Foundation, a Pakistani emergency service organization, jointly chosen as the beneficiary by the Earthquake Relief Coalition and HCC. The HCC has been planning this comedy show since late August, but decided to team up with groups interested in earthquake relief in October, before the Wyclef Jean concert failed to materialize...
...most reductive form, Syriana is about a businessman (Matt Damon) mixed up with oil sheiks, a poor Pakistani (Mazhar Munir) desperate to give meaning to his life and death, a CIA agent (George Clooney) on the trail of terrorists and a very big oil deal...