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...Dayani is one of thousands of optimistic souls who believe a prosperous future can emerge from the stony soil of strife-torn Afghanistan. Since the brutal Taliban regime was toppled five years ago by Western coalition forces, the government of President Hamid Karzai, beset by warlords and Islamic militants, has struggled to maintain order and control. The country's primitive economy is dominated by illicit opium production, which by some estimates accounts for as much as one-third of GDP. About 40% of Afghans are unemployed. And last month, the World Food Program warned that millions of rural Afghans might...
...ending the Iraq war. The attempt to create a unified, democratic Iraq is doomed to failure. Modern Iraq as we know it has never been politically unified; religious and tribal factionalism has been suppressed by the strictly autocratic rule of a British-imposed monarchy or by Saddam Hussein's brutal dictatorship. The new U.S. Congress and President Bush should make the issue of resolving the Iraq war their first priority when Congress convenes in January. Dudley Mann Wakefield, Rhode Island...
...jumped on them. Since childhood, she says, the number of drugs that she took just continued to get larger and larger. "There were more pills at every birthday," she says. "As my weight increased, they would up the dose." The protease inhibitors were powerful but the side effects were brutal. "Since I was on medications for so long, it almost seemed like second nature to lose my appetite and be nauseated," she says...
Evasion gives way to passion only after a pair of piercing traumas. In the first, Vesper witnesses a brutal fight between Bond and two African freedom fighters, during which her lover-to-be kills his assailants with unrestrained brutality and enlists her to help dispose of the bodies. Later, Bond returns to their suite to find her sobbing and quaking in the shower, paralyzed by the savagery she has just witnessed...
...most brutal moment in the movie is a gruelingly long torture scene in which Bond literally has his balls flogged. He evinces a similar level of emotional rawness, reduced to screams and rantings that grow crazier with each blow. The couple’s admission of love comes two scenes later, when Vesper tends to the recovering 007. She tries to express her newfound feelings in spite of her harsh demeanor: “If all that was left of you was your smile and your little finger, you’d still be more of a man than anyone...