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...Inside there were weapons everywhere, draped from every shoulder, positioned on every roof; far more than in similar posts in Kandahar. District commander Haji Abdul Mohammed granted us an audience, surrounded by his curious soldiers in black turbans (one carrying an M-16 made in Kentucky in 1975) and his senior lieutenants in white turbans. Haji Abdul is quite an old man, his beard more grey than black. He told us Rais the Baghran began surrendering eight days ago. The day before troops from this outpost accompanied 20 U.S. Special Forces and governor Haji Shir Mohammed as far north towards...
...factions. Kalashnikovs began barking back and forth, soon joined by salvos of rocket propelled grenades, the explosions resonating through the waking city. There was little strategy behind the assault, and controlled fire wasn't a feature. Lurking behind corners, or popping out windows, the fighters sprayed rounds, oblivious to curious market shoppers. The exchange was won by weight of numbers; more fire poured in than came out. The crack of grenades brought a lull...
...MARKETING CAMPAIGN Love the Spielberg movie or hate it, this stealth campaign for the robo-Pinocchio story was popcorn entertainment itself. A network of websites spun a complex murder mystery, never mentioning the movie's plot or its main characters, but hardwiring curious surfers into AI's fictional future world...
...Over the past few months, James has given TIME a glimpse of himself on the job, in Hong Kong and in India. He comes across as bright, confident, driven and irreverent. By turns guarded (like about that pesky succession question) and candid, curious and sarcastic, humble and profane, he remains a paradoxical character, but no more so than any other twentysomething millionaire. He likes to cast his upbringing and his family as "normal," but to almost everyone else, his life and his station are extraordinary. To date, STAR has thrived under his watch, but many questions remain, among them...
Stavis, who also owns Wordsworth Books and Curious George Goes to Wordsworth, said his other businesses were booming...