This violence also makes itself felt politically and there is profound antagonism between the local chapters of three political parties: the Pakistan People's Party (PPP), the mostly Pashtun Awami National Party (ANP) and the Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM).

BBC: How the Taliban gripped Karachi

There are three chapters in what I like to refer to as the rebalancing.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

So far they're just three chapters into drafting what looks likely to be an eight-chapter report, with the select committee equivalent of trench warfare over every paragraph.

BBC: Plenty at stake for hacking report

The first three chapters fit into that.

FORBES: Getting to Know the Gap Generation

The downloads are three to five minute chapters, which include images of key words and phrases.

BBC: Kidderminster school's success attributed to iPods

While the book also touches on the crises in Haiti and Somalia, and crams the air war against Serbia over Kosovo into three of its 44 chapters, it is essentially about American policy towards Bosnia.

ECONOMIST: Washington chronicle

The College Republicans have tripled their membership in the past three years, increasing their chapters from 409 to 1, 148 and recruiting 22, 000 new members in 2002 alone.

ECONOMIST: A youthquake that is helping George Bush