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...They just want to kill you off," Chee said grimly, sitting still for the moment as a car carried him from his whirlwind campaigning back to the headquarters of his Singapore Democratic Party, three small rooms up a narrow staircase in the Little India district. He started to say more, then checked himself. "You never know what is going to be defamatory and what's not. I'm interested in talking about the issues, not personal attacks. But they have no qualms calling me names...
...preferred narcotic is a potent, pungent hashish that is smoked by Alliance and Taliban soldiers alike from dinner until midnight. Alliance soldiers say they make up for their lack of Western-style military discipline with versatility. "We can do everything," says Fazel, a tank commander in the Farkhar district. "But we don't do anything very well...
...reality check. The northern city remains the focus of U.S.-backed efforts by the Northern Alliance to score an important victory over the Taliban before winter sets in. Alliance troops have begun moving on Mazar, but with mixed results. A spokesman said Tuesday the Alliance had captured the district of Zari, south of the city, from the Taliban, but had lost part of the neighboring Aq district in a Taliban counteroffensive...
...Angeles police department's bungling of DNA evidence left jurors around the country skeptical of prosecutors. Add well-publicized problems with the FBI's labs and police-brutality scandals in New York City and Los Angeles, and "the law-enforcement community was tainted," says DeKalb County, Ga., district attorney J. Tom Morgan. But since Sept. 11, jurors have made a U turn. "There was a time when I'd ask people, 'If the government made it, it must be blank?' And in the past that blank would come back with 'overpriced' or 'unreliable,'" says Houston defense lawyer Troy McKinney. "Today...
...narrator pleasurably views his own stool specimens as if they were the ink blots of a Rorschach test. Yet no matter how far out Tanizaki goes, his narrative powers rarely diminish, always drawing the reader along with felicitous phrases or pithy descriptions such as: "The slum spread over the district like an overturned trash...