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...field, Way is involved in community service, a stark contrast for a player who can be seen mashing pitches at the plate. He helps with a PBHA program called Keylatch, an afterschool organization that helps students in grades K-5 in Boston’s South End with their homework. Way notes that “it’s been a rewarding experience when I’ve been able...
...portion of the Golan Heights that remains under Syrian control. In recent years, the government of Syrian President Bashar Assad has used the occasion to call for Israel - which has occupied most of the Golan Heights since the war of 1967 - to return the territory in exchange for an end to the conflict between the two countries, which have officially been at war since the creation of the Jewish state in 1948. But the Syrian government appears no longer content to confine itself to symbolic posturing. (See "A Brief History of the Golan Heights...
...their propensity for violence and peremptory taxation, but more trustworthy than a deeply corrupt Afghan government and much more familiar than the foreign troops. Senjaray is the largest population center, a town of somewhere from 8,000 to 12,000 (there hasn't been a census), at the eastern end of the Zhari district. If Senjaray can't be won over, Kandahar...
...apparent that almost any development project the Americans tried in Senjaray would end up benefitting the Taliban - except one: reopening the Pir Mohammed School...
...what Rahman thought about the Americans. "I've heard that they bomb civilians from the air," the boy said. But the Taliban bomb and booby-trap schools, Ellis pointed out. "Why would they do that?" Rahman didn't know. Ellis asked the boy how he thought the war would end. "Whenever you guys get out from here, things will get better," he said. "The elders will sit down with the Taliban, and the Taliban will lay down their arms...