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Afghanistan's Taliban has destroyed the two towering statues of Buddha in the Bamiyan Valley [WORLD, March 19]. The assertion of a Taliban leader that "all we are crushing are stones" is amazing. Isn't the holy city of Mecca made of stone too? How would millions of Muslim hajj...
Civil war, drought, famine, invasion and tyranny have been tramping back and forth across the weary soil of this miserable nation for so long that the prospects of its recovery, even if the Taliban were to vanish tomorrow, are distant at best. And now the Taliban have outraged world opinion...
A gun fanatic, Rivas named his dogs Ruger and Beretta. His previous robberies exhibited the meticulous planning expected of a sometime engineering student at the University of Texas in El Paso. Rivas would use disguises and lies to gain entrance to stores, often posing as a security guard or a...
Schulz's achievement was singular and planetary. An artist, a storyteller, he was now a worldwide industry, too. This had never happened to a newspaper cartoonist before. The new markets that "Peanuts" was dominating in stage, television, film, book, record and subsidiary forms, simply hadn't been open to newspaper...
ST. ISIDORE OF SEVILLE Patron Saint of the Internet Isidore, an education fanatic and voluminous writer, is also the patron saint of computer users and techies, so you can pray to him, whether it's an iMac, a PC or a beta version of Netscape that's crashing.