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...weren't supposed to be in the Pakistani city of Peshawar. They were, after all, fugitive Taliban from Afghanistan, enemies of Pakistan's ally, the U.S., and would have had to cross fearsome terrain and fortified checkpoints to get to Peshawar. Yet there they were, happy to explain their latest doings, disguised only by a switch of turbans from Taliban black to stripes. "Until now, we've been lying low," one told TIME's Rahimullah Yusufzai late last week. The Taliban, the two say, are regrouping in small, heavily armed bands along the border and launching attacks on U.S. forces...
Scholl said he chose not to explain his reasons for sending the e-mail in class because “the format and time were not appropriate,” and Nesson had advised him not to elaborate...
...result was a nonconference record even stronger than the easier schedule could explain...
Martin’s obsession with words- with the precision of expression is fascinating. It hints at a compulsive need to order and to label that might help explain why he finds it so difficult to resist an attraction that defies any sort of conventional classification. When Martin’s son Billy (portrayed by an utterly sympathetic Jeffrey Carlson, who turns in a near-perfect performance, marred only by the hand gesture he apparently feels necessary to label his character as homosexual), transfers his feelings of rage and need towards his father into a sexual embrace, it begs disturbing...
...help the cause of humor that the play spends far too much time posing as a comedy of manners, forcing Martin’s family to crack defensive jokes about his inexplicably bad-mannered actions. If the point is that no matter how hard you try to understand or explain love, you just can’t do it, there’s got to be a better way than having Stevie beg for an explanation then cut him off every few seconds to smash furniture. Her defensive humor never seems sufficiently defensive, and the punch lines just aren?...