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...most Taliban leaders found sanctuary among fellow ethnic Pashtuns in Pakistan's lawless Baluchistan and North-West Frontier Province (N.W.F.P.) regions. Pakistani authorities have arrested nearly 500 suspected al-Qaeda members, but Karzai, among others, has charged that the U.S.'s avowed ally has shown little inclination to apprehend top-level Taliban, even when provided addresses where they could be found. "If we had sincere and honest cooperation from Pakistan," charges the security official in Kabul, "there'd be no Taliban threat in Afghanistan." After the battle near Spin Boldak, Mamabaidullah made the point less delicately by piling more than...
...China's confusing regulations weren't troublesome enough, many businesspeople must also contend with red tape at their own corporations. One senior banker in Asia says all trips at his company now require the approval of two top-level executives. For good measure, employees returning from SARS-affected areas must quarantine themselves for 10 days?which his bank counts as vacation time...
...what we've witnessed in the past year or so is a new pattern: successive top-level edicts that bolster the clout of Pyongyang's overseas adversaries?particularly Rumsfeldian warriors who dream of imposing "regime change" on North Korea...
Gone will be Lewis, who stresses extracurricular activity as the major strength of the College, and subsumed will be his top-level position, which was solely responsible for non-academic matters...
...evidence against Iraq at the UN Security Council is less an attempt at direct persuasion of reluctant allies than it is a PR exercise. If persuasion of the skeptics were the objective, the session would have been held behind closed doors, if not been attempted in the form of top-level briefings for each of the key players on the Council. Instead, Powell will be televised live as he paints a picture of Iraq's failure to comply with disarmament resolutions, hoping to sway international public opinion and firm up domestic support...