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Parker will begin the Pudding festivities with a parade in her honor on Mass. Ave. at 1:30 p.m. on Feb. 7. Fourteen members of the all-male theatrical troupe, dressed flamboyantly in drag, will escort the actress along the parade route to the Pudding Theater on Holyoke Street where she will be treated to a preview of the new play...
...nation," he told Mirwali. "They want to tell the world what is here. They are working for you. If something happens to them, it will bring shame to us." Amazingly, Mirwali seemed moved. He nodded in agreement and passed out orders. A junior commander dashed off to ready our escort. "I think it will only cost you about $10 per soldier," the fixer advised with a smile...
...streets outside fear their city will slip into medieval disorder. Relief grain sent by the World Food Program sits in warehouses, as deliveries remain too dangerous to complete. Bandits have overrun the most important road in Afghanistan, from Jalalabad to Kabul, rendering it impassable to anyone without an armed escort (four journalists traveling along it were executed on Nov. 26). Blood feuds that smoldered during the Taliban years have rekindled into nighttime firefights. Asked about these problems, the city's top military commander, Haji Zaman, arches his eyebrows. "There is no problem," he says. "Everything...
Campbell said he had a police officer escort him to a first aid tent following the spraying...
...Then the crowd started throwing stones at us. Big stones. Who knows why? Because America had dropped bombs on them? Because we had an armed guard in a uniform as an escort? Because it was a novelty to throw stones at foreigners instead of always at each other? Maybe for all those reasons. Our armed guard and protector cowered behind a wall. He was to redeem himself later on, though...