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...Pakistan town of Quetta. Karzai jokes that she is staying put until he finds a decent place to live. Colleagues say he is concerned about her security and that of friends. "Imagine that once you had to live in a jungle full of wild beasts," he says. "Afterward, it takes a while to stop thinking that those beasts are still out there." Many Afghans are convinced that fearsome creatures are still stalking outside Karzai's palace gates...
...Reid was finally in Paris, hanging out in the Goutte d'Or neighborhood, a center of the city's Arab and African population. On Dec. 21, he made his first attempt to fly to Miami. French authorities have discovered an e-mail exchange made afterward with an interlocutor in Pakistan who urged Reid to try again the next day. "They obviously didn't want him spending a lot of time sitting around, where he might have changed his mind--or been caught," says a French investigator...
...glory of the gold, the silver, the bronze--well, sort of. "You wouldn't expect real gold, silver and bronze, would you?" chortles one shameless rule bender. "The medals issued to winning cheaters are actually pot metal, painted. So afterward, when they sell them to some unwitting dupe for big bucks, it'll be a memory to last a lifetime...
...This is an amazing feeling," a giggling, sometimes teary Bakken said afterward. "There was a lot of tough competition, so we definitely had our work cut out for us because of the Germans...
...faster. And then came Norway's Lasse Kjus, .06 sec. quicker. Strobl, a personable and humorous character who in the summer months is a policeman, skied a perfect race while Eberharter made a couple of small errors. As he took in the joy of winning, Strobl said afterward, "I'm not out to beat anyone when I'm skiing. When I ski, I just want to ski well." Eberharter hid his disappointment well. "Everyone was expecting me to win the gold medal," he said, "but I always said life can go a different...