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...Working the Borderlands I read Aryn Baker's article on Talibanistan [April 2] with interest, since I spent time working in the borderlands of Pakistan and Afghanistan in the early 1980s and '90s. It isn't in the least odd that a Waziri elder in Pakistan should look to Afghan President Hamid Karzai as his leader. When I first went to Peshawar, I discovered that Pashtuns had contempt for Punjabis, that they speak a different language and have very different customs. Lieut. General Hamid Gul may be a former director general of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence, but old soldiers...
...suspect they don’t have the budget for anything other than lame.” Probably not. Sexy only comes back at a high price, and it’s not like this institution has billions of dollars at its disposal. So embrace your inner 90s freak and get ready to rock out to “Jumper...
...chorus, “And everywhere I go, I kick a freestyle / And every time I move, these women freestyle,” it takes you back—in a good way—to the rapper’s heyday in the late ’90s. The album’s successes and pitfalls aren’t all predicated on their moment in time, however. Redman shines when he reunites with his old crew, as he does on the Def Squad-featured “Walk In Gutta.” Battling a bland chorus, Erick...
...read Aryn Baker's article onTalibanistan [April 2] with interest, since I spent time working in the borderlands of Pakistan and Afghanistan in the early 1980s and '90s. It isn't in the least odd that a Waziri elder in Pakistan should look to Afghan President Hamid Karzai as his leader. When I first went to Peshawar, I discovered that Pashtuns had contempt for Punjabis, that they speak a different language and have very different customs. Lieut. General Hamid Gul may be a former director general of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence, but old soldiers in Pakistan never really...
...terms, the number of student crimes (including theft) shrank from 3.4 million to 1.4 million in that period, even as the U.S. teen population grew by 5.4 million kids. Post-Columbine security explains some of the decline, but the school crime rate started to drop in the mid-'90s. And the rate at which 12-to-17-year-olds committed murder (at school or elsewhere) plummeted an astonishing 68% from...