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...Taiba, a wing of an Afghan mujahedin group known as Markaz Al Dawa Wal Irshad. It is set on a vast mountain clearing overlooking Muzaffarabad. (Training grounds for the other three militant groups are located in the North-West Frontier province.) Armed men guard the facility round-the-clock. There are only two structures, one an armory, the other a kitchen. Trainees live and sleep in the open, whether in the sweltering summer or the depth of winter. The field is dotted with installations used to teach the fervent young?some no older than 14?how to cross a river...
...more hands-off fashion and, of course, Sharon may be a lot less sensitive to American sensibilities if confrontations escalate in the West Bank and Gaza. Which could still drag both sides back toward the violent strategic impasse of the late 1980s. Then again, despite the around-the-clock talks of recent weeks, they're not that far away from that right...
...much-anticipated match against Trinity takes place Saturday afternoon on the Barnaby Courts at the Murr Center. The women take the court at noon, while the men are on at two o'clock. The men's next opponent after Trinity is Amherst, which they will play on February...
...Richard Nixon, coming into office in 1969, demonstrated a mildly hilarious phenomenon: the way in which a formerly scruffy and reviled politician may pass through the inaugural looking glass and become transformed. Tricky Dick, the familiar old five o'clock shadow of American politics, suddenly was credited with rebirth as the new New Nixon, a metamorphosis from which he emerged almost regal in manner and body English and even tailoring. Suddenly, his suits seemed to fit better, more presidentially...
...true. I saw 15 minutes of an early episode, and, I'm not kidding, it literally put me to sleep. Which is often a good thing, and if the nice folks at CBS would like to rerun the show at 11:30 p.m. ET (right after the 11 o'clock "Simpsons," thank you very much) I would be most grateful. It was all quite beautiful and quiet, all palm trees and long shots of ocean and people exchanging meaningful glances that meant nothing to me, and I at first thought that Terrence Malick had decided to try his hand...