Word: apartness
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...then there is--apart from the skinning alive--Afghanistan's most frightening contribution to modern warfare: the cave. Afghanistan's limestone cliffs are honeycombed with them, many with multiple entrances and all of them capable of being booby-trapped. Pentagon officials are convinced that bin Laden and his top associates are holed up in caves and that they might move to a different one every day. Some are big enough to be seen in satellite images, and the Air Force has already targeted them. EGBU-28 bunker-buster bombs can drill like masonry bits through 20 ft. of stone before...
...mistakes of the past decade as a recognition of how they had tried--and failed--to prevent those mistakes from unfolding. In Kosovo and East Timor, the U.N. has begun to turn nation building into a science, learning how to construct functioning governments and societies in countries torn apart by hate. It is a skill the U.N. may soon be called on to apply in Afghanistan, a land where its efforts have been repeatedly--and sometimes brutally--thwarted by the Taliban...
While they look for their next project, they are also examining their partnership. It has worked so far, with Allen handling the actors and Albert working the camera. Yet they have started to grow apart. "He likes doing stuff that gets seen," says Albert, implying that his sibling has gone Hollywood. Allen counters that Albert "is still more into violence than I am. I could do an ironic movie or a love story and be just as happy." With From Hell, at least, they seem to be having it both ways...
...various individuals that provide inspiration for the painting—a baker, a nurse, a boatman, et al. Their appearances are brief, their depth non-existent; they exist to the audience only as they exist to George. Yet George, who skillfully observes his subjects—effortlessly taking them apart and agonizingly putting them back together by painting tiny, meticulous dots on an enormous canvas—cannot use his keen perception to control his own life; he ultimately fails in his relationship with his lover, Dot, who requires more than a lover who “cannot look...
...Really? The Chinese will pay good money for them. They tear the missiles apart and study them, so they can build their own. Very good money. Lakhs and lakhs of dollars," said a slender Afghan excitedly. A lakh is 100,000 of something...