Word: chora
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...governor of Oruzgan's Chora district, Khan was a former provincial police chief who had acted as Karzai's protector when the Pashtun leader returned from exile in 2001 to rally tribes against the Taliban. His death "has made the tribes angry," says his elder son, Dawood. "They want to stand against the Australians...
...Last June, hundreds of Taliban fighters surged into Chora, 35 km north of Tarin Kowt, attacking ISAF, Afghan Army and government positions. In four days of fighting, scores of Taliban were killed. But Afghan civilians also suffered terribly. According to a report by the U.N. Assistance Mission and the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission, the Taliban forced local people to give them food, used them as human shields, tortured them, cut out their tongues or hacked off their hands, and set them on fire. The report estimated that 60 to 70 civilians were killed in the Chora fighting. While...
...KARIYE DJAMI by Paul A. Underwood. 1,208 pages. Pantheon. $55 for the boxed set of three volumes. After the Turkish conquest of Constantinople in 1453, the Turks plastered over the frescoes and mosaics in the Church of the Monastery of the Chora, perched on a hillside above the Bosporus. It served devout Moslems as the Mosque of Kariye Djami until 1948, when the building was secularized and the Byzantine Institute of the U.S. began the delicate work of cleaning and restoring the art works. Volume I contains a historical introduction and a description of the mosaics and frescoes, which...
...that society, so as to eliminate all possibilities of further criticism. The Glee Club under its present system is rather more inclined toward the choral and the stately anthem than it is toward the rollicking-student song. Were the club to alter its name to that of "The Harvard Chora Society," not only could there be no more doubt as to its character, but it would also be more appropriately named in the eyes of those who are its friends...
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