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...have waned. Karzai may be given the seat of honor at the State of the Union and invited, like Bill Clinton before him, to address the British Cabinet. But so far there are no signs he'll be given the troops he needs. And that may mean the new dawn for Afghanistan trumpeted by President Bush on Tuesday doesn't extend much beyond Kabul. Karzai's tour and the battle back home showed that while Afghanistan's interim leaders have inherited the trappings of statehood, they have not inherited its power...
...still night in Kabul, two weeks ago, Marine guards in full combat gear at the U.S. embassy were startled by the whoosh of a fireball exploding underneath wintry trees at the far end of the diplomatic compound. The resident bomb-disposal expert decided to wait until dawn before venturing out of the fortified embassy to investigate. That's what makes him an expert. The explosion was only a decoy. The real killer was a land mine that was invisible in the dark but was spotted in the daylight half buried. Says Corporal Matthew Roberson of the Marine antiterrorist unit...
...dawn of the 20th century, the roster of illnesses that spelled almost inevitable death seemed to stretch forever. Cancer, heart disease, kidney disease, cirrhosis, pneumonia, cholera, diphtheria, tuberculosis and even the flu were relentless killers. Some victims might hang on to eke out a normal life span, albeit in disability and pain; some might even recover entirely. But survival was purely a crapshoot, with depressingly unfavorable odds. The hospital was a place where people went to die, not to be cured...
...glow over the mansion. As he feverishly sketched, the back door of the White House opened, and Buddy emerged in high spirits. He streaked across the lawn, spotted the friendly artist and gave Wyeth a full dog greeting, sending sketch pencils flying. Wyeth then painted Buddy into his picture, Dawn, The White House, enabling future generations to see Buddy loping through the dewy grass well into the third century of White House history...
...Something very young and hopeful went away that dawn,” he wrote in the Class of 1955’s 25th Anniversary Report, “and I watched it go from my window. For the next few years, the national malaise was locked in the Yard...