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...fissile material were airlifted from Kazakhstan to the U.S. But critics contend that Nunn-Lugar is underfunded. The Bush Administration has proposed cutting its budget $100 million this year, a sum that took $20 million out of a program designed to find jobs for unemployed Russian nuclear scientists. Now we must hope they haven't gone to work for bin Laden...
Since Sept. 11, big powers have come courting. U.S. officials who have long ignored the United Front are eager to plot cooperation. Russian generals muster Soviet-era equipment familiar to the fighters for immediate shipment. Iranian advisers, who steadily kept the rebel forces alive, promise more money and materiel. Afghan fighters, stalled for years just 30 miles from the capital of Kabul, see their dream of retaking the city within reach...
...where he learned his mean lessons. On a single very violent day, covered at top speed with harsh intensity by director Antoine Fuqua, Alonzo has to murderously bust a drug dealer he has been stalking for a decade. At the same time, he's got to pay off some Russian mafiosi he has offended or end up dead himself. Oh, yeah, it's also his first day on the job with a new partner, an idealistic and ambitious square named Jake Hoyt (Ethan Hawke), who needs to be taught the ropes. Or put that another way: Alonzo wants to entangle...
...course, if Bin Laden were quite the supervillain we've sometimes made him out to be, some may imagine we'd have seen some more explosions in America by now. But the anthrax thing and the Greyhound thing and the Russian plane thing all turned out to be ordinary human catastrophes, red herrings, false alarms - "isolated incidents." (That, incidentally, will be the next cool cultural buzzword for this war, replacing the now-too-creepy "collateral damage...
...Ukrainian surface-to-air missiles were reportedly being fired Thursday at unmanned aircraft in joint Russian-Ukrainian exercises at the Chauda missile range in Crimea. U.S. officials believe some of those missiles were capable of reaching the plane. Ukrainian Defense Minister Alexander Kuzmuk expressed satisfaction with the exercises Thursday, and defense department officials denied any involvement in the downing of the airliner. Asked later by the Russian media to comment on reports emanating from the U.S. of an accidental shoot-down, the Kremlin press-service answered rather ominously: "It is up to the Ukrainian official authorities to answer this question...