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...Amtrak Reform Council will probably recommend that Congress create a new entity to take over Amtrak's responsibility for managing the busy, 700-mile Northeast Corridor, from Washington to Boston. The corridor is the only part of the nation's rails that Amtrak actually owns--the freight rails control the rest--and it costs $400 million to $600 million a year to maintain...
...Around the corner from Shin's pooch park, Miwa Yanagi's floor-to-ceiling DVD projection places the viewer in a dark, endlessly receding corridor. White-coated female figures appear and vanish through doors off to the sides, whispering and gesturing. We could be in a mental hospital playing out some mysterious psychodrama. In another gallery space, five child-like sculptures are gathered in a circle. With their primary colors and beatific expressions, Yoshitomo Nara's Little Pilgrims (Nightwalkers), 1998, could be the Teletubbies?until one notices they are swaddled in bandages. These enigmatic figures are portraits of "a generation...
...setback that will substantially change the strategic equation in Afghanistan. The fall of Mazar appeared to signal a collapse of the Taliban's hold on northern Afghanistan, with Alliance troops quickly capturing two important towns to the north and east, and more importantly, almost immediately opening up a land corridor from the Uzbek border. That would allow massive shipments of humanitarian aid to be immediately shipped to hundreds of thousands of Afghans facing starvation on the northern plain. It would also allow the U.S. to ship tons of military hardware to the Alliance, and possibly begin deploying its own forces...
...from the media. Military realities have made it a central cog of the U.S. war effort, the paper argues, and stepped up air support has raised the possibility of the Alliance capturing Mazar before the onset of winter. That "could provide the U.S. forces with a bridgehead or land corridor from Uzbekistan to ferry troops and supplies into Afghanistan, an advantage Pakistan cannot and has not offered because of domestic political constraints." The danger, of course, is de facto partition of Afghanistan, "a prospect no Afghan patriot contemplates with enthusiasm or equanimity. However, that may well be the bitter reality...
P.F.L.P. gunmen stalked a corridor of the Jerusalem Hyatt hotel early last Wednesday morning. There they killed Israeli Tourism Minister Rehavam Ze'evi with two bullets--one through the eye, the other in the neck. It was the first time in the country's history that Palestinians had assassinated an Israeli Cabinet minister. Ze'evi's enraged Cabinet colleagues accused Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat of encouraging attacks on Israelis and sent Israeli troops deep into Palestinian towns, bombarding the neighborhoods gunmen use as cover and killing six Palestinians, including an 11-year-old girl...