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...Afghan culture to less remote markets - their warm hues and intricate tribal patterns are showing up in carpet showrooms from Sydney to San Francisco. Unfortunately, clever imitations are turning up, too. So how does a novice buyer spot the fakes? We asked two experts - third-generation carpet trader Abdul Tawab and his father, Hajji Sufi Abdul Wahid - for advice. The pair hail from Herat, the center of Afghanistan's carpet business, but moved to the Pakistani capital Islamabad 20 years ago, after fleeing the Afghan-Soviet war. There, Wahid set up the family shop, Herat Carpets, and today father...
...casting a ballot has become a life-threatening proposition. Even in the holy city of Najaf, in the heart of largely Shi'ite southern Iraq, there are palpable fears of election-related violence. "Every day I watch when a car pulls up in the street," says Abbas Hamid Abdul Rezea as U.S. Marines erect concrete barricades across the road from his home at a school that will serve as a polling station. "Every day we are so scared...
...position to pick up the slack. "When the Americans go will depend on when our own forces are ready and on how the resistance responds after the elections," says al-Mahdi. Still, the Shi'ite leadership remains adamant that it will be Baghdad's call to make. Last fall Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, the leading candidate on the Shi'ite slate, told TIME that the U.S. would leave when it was asked. "The decision will be an Iraqi one, not an American one," he said. "And we want this foreign army out of our country immediately. We cannot tolerate this...
...crusade. The U.S. women were good, they were good looking, and they were on a mission to prove that women's team sports, and soccer in particular, deserve the same kind of attention, admiration and money that the guys get. 'I grew up watching Magic Johnson and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, men I could never emulate,' says Julie Foudy, the thoughtful, funny midfielder who leads the team in quotes. 'Girls need role models...
...participate but are too scared to even register. He suspects that few in the Sunni minority will go to the polls--perhaps not even 10%--which could undermine the election's legitimacy. "Many people from Arab countries will say this is not a correct election," says Dr. Sa'ad Abdul al-Razzak of Pachachi's party. U.S. officials say they will urge Shi'ite leaders to reach out to Sunnis after the election to bring them into the government and make sure they are sufficiently represented. "We believe the process will have Sunni input," says the U.S. official. "We believe...