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Your report on how U.S. forces helped put down a Taliban prisoner-of-war revolt, "Inside the Battle at Qala-i-Jangi," was riveting [TIME EXCLUSIVE, Dec. 10]. Alex Perry's account of the sounds, the smells, the terror and the tragedy inside the Qala-i-Jangi fortress was brilliant, as was his description of the final moments of the ill-fated CIA interrogation of the prisoners. The photographs and graphics highlighted the incisive reporting. Perry has left the competition in the Afghan dust. PATRICK J. SLOYAN Paeonian Springs...
...SEASON OF THE WITCHEL: PW dumps on "Me Times Three" by Alex Witchel (Knopf; February 1). "NYT Style reporter Witchel makes her initial foray into fiction with a darkly humorous take on a young woman's growing pains...a disappointing offering from a writer whose privileged perspective on the culture, manner and style of NY in its 20th-century heyday might have yielded something less predictable, or at least more titillatingly revealing...
...With reporting by Sally Donnelly/Washington, Laura A. Locke/San Francisco, Alex Perry/Mazar-i-Sharif
...Staff writer Alex B. Ginsberg can be reached at ginsberg@fas.harvard.edu...
Because guys like Alex Brown and Peyton Manning forego millions of dollars to play on Saturdays just one more season. Because 18-year-olds have to grow up quickly on a patch of grass in front of 100,000 screaming fanatics. Because Auburn and Alabama and Michigan and Ohio State hate each other. Because the FSU “War Chant” is so annoying and because when I was in Gainesville two weeks ago, I tailgated for six hours and was so excited that I had problems breathing...