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...impressed by the way they comported themselves in Kabul," says the State official, "and we have reason to believe they'll take a constructive role in Bonn," where the main factions meet this week to thrash out a power-sharing arrangement. Washington will do business with the warlords, however thuggish or politically grasping they might be. That's partly by necessity but also because the Pentagon wants people in power with enough authority to locate bin Laden and assist in killing...
...dirty" teams work faster, less concerned with legal finery and more intent on making a quick, persuasive case to the world that the attacks are the handiwork of Osama bin Laden. On this track, the CIA and other nations' intelligence agents use informants who aren't necessarily thuggish or unreliable but who could never appear in court; to do so would risk revealing their sources. That's why, as one CIA veteran puts it, "we only do dirty...
Some moderates have started to realize that in order to sustain public support, they will have to root out the thuggish elements themselves. "You'll never see us breaking a window or hitting a policeman," says Cassen of France's ATTAC, which boasts 30,000 paying members. "We think it's absurd and provides a means of criminalizing the movement. We're doing everything we can to marginalize the violence...
...Gandhi fell apart, including an alleged fling with Nehru's private secretary O.M. Mathai. Frank does not give a definitive yes or no as to whether these relationships actually took place, relying instead on the statements of contemporaries. But what comes through clearly is Indira Gandhi's preference for thuggish, rude and forceful men?an obvious contrast to her father. Her husband Feroze, her father's secretary Mathai and her yoga teacher and personal holy man Bramachari all fit this description. She doted on her younger son Sanjay who was of the same mold. He was a selfish, untalented...
...Hollywood's favorite trades--just ask Robert Downey Jr.), one might have expected that a similar hack job was in the offing. And it would have been easy for Soderburgh to pull one off. He could have given us an out-of-touch drug czar, a bunch of thuggish DEA types and a few innocent teens (preferably black teens) who get busted for doing a little weed and end up the victims of our brutal, racist criminal justice system. It would have been perfect--a movie whose only message was "legalize, legalize, legalize...