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...thought intervention (Steorts) or non-intervention (myself) were the right move in Afghanistan. We were bumped from the show—apparently President Bush’s press-conference and a telephone call from Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) were more important than what a couple of dumb college students...
...course, all this assumes a well-thought-out strategy on the part of the mail bombers. That's a big assumption. The mailings don't seem to be the work of an especially sophisticated mind; the attacker(s) were apparently at least dumb enough to believe that people like Tom Brokaw and Tom Daschle open their own mail. (You have to wonder, in fact, if some moron didn't target a group of supermarket tabloids in Florida simply because the parent company's name was American Media - look! it's the headquarters of the American media!) One of the many...
...Chaman frontier post southeast of Kandahar, and at Torkham, about 600 km north in the Khyber Pass, there were scenes of panic. When Afghans started crawling through the barbed-wire fencing, the Pakistani police attacked with whips and clubs, herding frightened families back across the border like dumb cattle. Some enraged Afghans responded with a barrage of stones. Others headed toward the old smugglers' routes through the mountains. Some may succeed in slipping past the Pakistani border police, but they must tread carefully: the trails are peppered with thousands of land mines left over from the Soviet...
...mother carrying John from behind, her arms wrapped around his waist, his legs dangling down toward the concrete driveway. My father followed with John’s wheelchair, begging her to calm down. But she kept yelling at John to walk, not to play dumb. Her face was red. Even then, I knew that John’s grunting could only mean he was frightened. My mother let go and John crashed face-first into the concrete. I don’t know if he cried...
Consider my offer. The Real Michael Jordan doesn’t shy away from challenges, not even the dumb ones, does...