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...inspect what was thought to have been a triumphant blow against Osama bin Laden's network. Instead it found the remains of the party. Out of 112 people, two women had survived. "When the U.S. soldiers saw the destruction, they were very sad," says Assaullah Falah, a tribal elder, as he leads a reporter through the wreckage...
...knew what would come next: furious Hindus seeking revenge. And sure enough, her family soon spotted a mob nearing their home. The girl fled with her 5-year-old brother and hid in the home of Hindu neighbors. From the neighbors' roof, she saw her parents and her two elder brothers beaten, doused with gasoline and burned alive. Her four sisters, she says, were stripped, raped and killed...
...Kathy J. Starnbach ’03 was flattered, then embarrassed, by her encounter with the father of Perry C. Yeffen ’03. The elder Yeffen, who has lived in Israel his entire life and never completely mastered English, thought he was asking Starnbach about her post-graduation plans. What he actually said was: “What you do later, beautiful-things?” Starnbach, who says she has “always had a thing for older guys,” replied, “Whatever you want to do, sexy.” Yeffen...
With his son Mark Pryor running for U.S. Senate from the family’s home state this fall, the elder Pryor says he’ll be heading back to the campaign trail...
...typical thuggish warrior chieftain. He is too courtly, too intellectual. But when he was in exile in Pakistan, Hamid Karzai had an intensity that attracted all kinds of Afghans to his salons. I remember sitting at a Karzai banquet with an Afghan former communist general, a Kunduz tribal elder and a wizened chess master. Karzai listened to them as equals, and they in turn were inspired by his quiet determination. Then one day I heard that Karzai had hopped a motorcycle, smuggled himself into southern Afghanistan and started his dangerous--but ultimately successful--campaign against the Taliban, all without...