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While the rank and file of the N.L.A. may be a ragtag group, its leadership probably is not. It is widely assumed by diplomats and local Albanian leaders that the top commanders--operating under names like "Cobra" and "The Beard"--include men who battled Serb units in 1998 and 1999 with the Kosovo Liberation Army. Significantly, ex-K.L.A. commanders in Kosovo have declined to condemn the insurgency, and a radical Kosovo leader last week claimed solidarity with the new group. Moreover, the hit-and-run attacks on police outposts closely resemble K.L.A. tactics during the Kosovo conflict. The guerrillas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rebel Hell | 4/2/2001 | See Source »

...caller reported that a student informed him of a suspicious white male, approximately 30 years of age, with a beard and dark jacket. HUPD officers responded and a search of the area found nothing...

Author: By Joseph P. Flood, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Police Log | 3/19/2001 | See Source »

...within their reach. Their proscriptions run from the hideous to the farcically pious--though farce itself, in today's Afghanistan, can and does kill. At one extreme, most girls are denied any education: Afghanistan is the most misogynistic country in the world. At another, a man who trims his beard commits a jailable crime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Buddha Bashing | 3/19/2001 | See Source »

...stay or leave? It was a question Hawaneen, a hollow-cheeked Afghan with a wispy beard, had debated with his elders for many weeks, while the famine--the worst in 30 years--tightened its grip on the village. Would they stand a better chance of survival if they remained? Or should they wander elsewhere until they found help? After a three-year drought, every village well had run dry, and the goats and sheep had died. Finally Hawaneen decided it was time to go; he had fed his family the last grains of wheat he had intended to plant this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hell Freezes Over | 3/5/2001 | See Source »

...featured speakers on the first morning of the conference was Ted J. Kaptchuk, an expert in traditional Chinese medicine. He sported a short salt-and-pepper beard, a black beret, and a short ponytail...

Author: By Jonathan H. Esensten, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: HMS Takes Herbs Mainstream | 2/14/2001 | See Source »

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