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...This Bird Has Flown) and later to an apprenticeship with master sitarist Ravi Shankar, who gave Harrison lessons on the instrument and in life itself. "He was a friend, a disciple and son to me," said Shankar, who visited Harrison for the last time on Wednesday. "George was a brave and beautiful soul, full of love, childlike humor and a deep spirituality. We spent the day before with him, and even then he looked so peaceful, surrounded by love...
...Pashtun warriors embraced nonviolence, enduring harsh repression at the hands of the British. In a time when Muslims, including ethnic Pashtun, are feared and even despised, the public doesn't know that an Islamic leader took those same people to the pinnacle of their humanity, the nonviolence of the brave. MICHAEL REED Davis, Calif...
...working in U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania? The terrorists rely on demonstrators to sow confusion and dissension. I hope those who opposed the war have seen the pictures of grateful Afghan citizens smiling and playing soccer and women going back to work. Americans, we love you. You are brave and loyal. PAULA MARNITZ Cape Town
...Brave New Homeland...
...streets of Kabul, you can see something these days that has not been glimpsed there for almost five years?women's faces. Now that the Taliban has fled the city, a few brave women have shed the burka?the head-to-toe garment, to Western eyes a kind of body bag for the living, made mandatory by the defeated religious leadership. Men sometimes look in astonishment at these faces, as if they were comets or solar eclipses. So do other women. From the moment in 1996 that the Taliban took power, it sought to make women not just obedient...