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...Islamist militants. "They are secular and anti-Taliban," says Samina Ahmed of the International Crisis Group, "yet American guns are being used against them." (Bugti says he's an agnostic, and some clan leaders espouse socialist values and enjoy whisky.) Baluch sources say that U.S. surveillance aircraft and Cobra gunships have targeted tribesmen. The State Department official says, "We've seen no evidence that our equipment has been used to violate human rights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pakistan's Other War | 6/19/2006 | See Source »

...Xmas Rock & Roll Odyssey III. The name doesn’t lie: with performances slated to start at 8 p.m. and run well past midnight, this truly is an evening of epic proportions. Musicians will include DJPJ spinning rockabilly and country at 8, Screamin Scotty at 8:30, The Cobra-Matics at 9:20, King Memphis at 10:10, Johnny Carlevale & The Broken Rhythm Boys at 11, Thru the Keyhole Burlesque at 11:05, Sean Mencher Combo at 11:50, and Raging Teens at 12:40 a.m. T.T. The Bear’s Place. $12. (MFK)Mr. Brownstone with Heather...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Happening 12/9-12/15 | 12/8/2005 | See Source »

...build themselves grass-hut homes. Recently, a refugee named Joanna Cuevelo sat in front of a new hut, feeding her four children, whom she had just brought on foot to Cambine from a village 65 miles to the north. Her ten-year-old son, who was bitten by a cobra on the way, lay on a blanket, his face pinched and gray. "His mother won't part with him," said Cavele. "We think he will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mozambique: Ordeal of Blood and Hunger | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...hopes were not disappointed; Louis lost to Schmeling in the twelfth round. When the American won the rematch with a one-round knockout, his countrymen exulted, but by then the jungle-killer image of Louis had become endemic. He was now compared to "a savage tiger" and "an irate cobra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pride and Prejudice | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

...blurted it out on the air. The show's intimate, neurotic tone made watching Paar an energizing, enervating experience -Event Television.. Carson established order, control (one of his favorite words), an elastic predictability. After the Paar boil, Carson, with his sang froid and what Tynan calls "his cobra-swift one-liners," brought a cooler temperature to Tonight. He seemed to verify Marshall McLuhan's dictum that TV is a cool medium, not for shouters but for soothers. (This was before Crossfire.) He was also a dry white wine in the sweet, gushy Manischewitz Concord Grape world of showbiz. Other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Whoooooooo's Johnny? | 1/25/2005 | See Source »

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