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...fighters, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf said last week, were responsible for "all kinds of atrocities. I think their return would mean a return to anarchy and criminal killing." A senior British source lends some support to this position. Those fighting the Taliban, he says, are "good guys to the extent that they are helping us meet our objectives," but "will have to change their ways very substantially to be able to form a government." Both Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International have documented gross violations of human rights by the Afghan opposition, though it's fair to say that...
...There was this reinvention of Bush as a leader, which was entirely required by the narrative of the moment. He’s a very mysterious figure to me—he operates a lot of the time behind the screen of everyone around him. The extent to which he’s operating at all we have no idea. I have the sense that he’s operating less than meets the eye. [Laughs.] But we don’t know. It will be an interesting period to deconstruct...
...almost as if we have stepped onto the screen of a cinematic romance: Either we’re passionate Camilles doomed to tragedy, or we’re chipper Meg Ryans, ready to win the hero with a scrunch of our nose. And to a certain extent, that’s great. That’s what the movies are for—escapism and entertainment. In the case of romantic comedies, where the outcome is pre-determined by the marquee (Did you really think that Bill Pullman was going to triumph over Tom Hanks in Sleepless in Seattle...
...state of Cambridge schools—which might turn out to be the biggest issue of this election—drew some debate, as candidates sparred over the extent of the council’s jurisdiction...
...Well, that may have been true from the very beginning, to the extent that the question is how the mission is defined. That may be why the military is saying it can knock down the Taliban but not necessarily deliver Osama bin Laden. The first is a relatively easy task for the U.S. military; the second is nearly impossible. The President speaks of delivering bin Laden dead or alive, but he and his advisers know that's a desire rather than a pledge on which they can deliver...