Hospitality Mixes With Hostility When the Taliban Meet the Press
Date: 24 November 2001
By Norimitsu Onishi
Norimitsu Onishi
Report on three-day encounter between rank-and-file Taliban soldiers and foreign journalists kept inside abandoned UN compound in Spinbaldak for three days by Taliban hosts; photos; young Taliban gawk at satellite television images and local youths stare down from walls, as older Taliban leaders to to control encounters; those preferring defiant posture of hermit kingdom win out as people famous for hospitality finally order journalists out; genial patience of spokesman Najibullah Sheerzio contrasts with hostile questions of security chief Mullah Sayed Haqqani (M)
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Religion Journal; American Islamic Media: Assorted and Aspiring
Date: 24 November 2001
By Gustav Niebuhr
Gustav Niebuhr
Gustav Niebhur's Religion Journal column focuses on widely scattered universe of Muslim publishing in America (M)
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Editors' Note; COMING ON SUNDAY
Date: 24 November 2001
Preview of Sunday Magazine section, which features article about Sec Colin Powell; photo
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Much Maneuvering Around German TV
Date: 24 November 2001
By Edmund L. Andrews
Edmund Andrews
John C Malone, chmn of Liberty Media Inc in Denver, is buying six major cable television networks from Deutsche Telekom AG for $5 billion; but even as he seeks approval of deal from German antitrust regulators, he appears to be trying to buy stake in Premiere World, company that holds crucial pay television rights in Germany to Hollywood movies and major sports events; Premiere World is owned by Kirch Group; stake is held by New Corp; German regulators are skeptical, and rival broadcasters are alarmed (M)
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Riveted by War and Grief, Italy Mourns Slain Writer
Date: 24 November 2001
By Melinda Henneberger
Melinda Henneberger
Maria Grazia Cutuli, one of four journalists killed in Afghanistan, is deeply mourned in Italy by thousands of people who never knew her; photos; map (M)
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Taliban Expel 100 Journalists, Canceling a Tour of Kandahar
Date: 23 November 2001
By Norimitsu Onishi
Norimitsu Onishi
Taliban expels 100 foreign journalists from Spinbaldak, near Pakistani border, day after spokesman for Mullah Muhammad Omar promises to take journalists on visit to Kandahar; expulsion of journalists, on same day that Afghan Embassy in Islamabad is forced to shut down, means Taliban is further isolated in southern swath of country still under its control; photo (M)
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Competing Principles Leave Some Professionals Debating Responsibility to Government
Date: 23 November 2001
By David E. Rosenbaum
David Rosenbaum
Professionals in many fields are re-evaluating long-held precepts about privacy in light of terrorist attacks and war in Afghanistan; reporters and photographers in Afghanistan who come across documents left behind by fleeing Al Qaeda operatives must decide whether to turn over documents to military for potential use in trials; many lawyers are rethinking their concept of civil liberties in view of Bush administration's decision to use military tribunals to try foreigners accused of terrorism and to monitor communications between people in federal custody and their lawyers; in Delray Beach, Fla, public librarian recognized some of suspected hijackers in Sept 11 attacks as men who used computers in her small library, and she broke Florida law guaranteeing confidentiality to library patrons and called police; librarians elsewhere around country say they would have done same thing under similar circumstances (M)
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S.E.C. IS INVESTIGATING NAVIGANT CONSULTING
Date: 24 November 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
SEC is investigating whether Navigant Consulting violated securities laws in 1998 and 1999; Navigant shares reached record $54.25 in Sept 1999 before newspaper Barron's questioned Chicago-based management consulting company's reported growth rate; stock fell 45 percent on Nov 22, 1999 when chief exec, Robert Maher, was ousted and company said it was reviewing $17 million in loans to him and other execs (S)
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