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...Pashtun tribesmen. Haq's execution, says a foreign diplomat in Islamabad, "will make any tribal chieftain hesitate before turning against the Taliban." Ahmadullah couldn't hide his glee. In a satellite-telephone interview with a Peshawar journalist, he exulted, "Anyone who tries to enter Afghanistan will meet the same fate as Abdul...
...autobiography (Plon; 216 pages), Jean-Christophe Mitterrand argues that his father?s political ambitions determined his own fate. Despite the leftist credentials of his progressive parents - the socialist Mitterrand had married Danielle Gouze, who founded the human-rights group France Libertés - it?s difficult to imagine a familial environment more rigidly bourgeois than the one Jean-Christophe describes. The two Mitterrand boys weren?t encouraged to take part in any significant conversations and rarely dined with their parents, who were "not the sort to embrace or touch," as Jean-Christophe puts it. Communication was so formal that...
...Among the Taliban commanders at Mazar was the regime's army chief, Mullah Fazil, a man in his mid-20s who is the youngest member of the inner circle around supreme Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar. Fazil's fate was unknown, but Alliance sources told Time that U.S. bombers inflicted heavy casualties on fleeing Taliban fighters. In Mazar locals rounded up stray Taliban who had failed to escape and held them until rebels arrived. Some captives were released and, a top Alliance official told Time, the conquering generals received specific orders not to mistreat prisoners of war. But the depths...
...quiet and meek, Tille struggles against her resentful mother and dreams of a career exploring the mysteries of the atom. Her mother, Beatrice (Sharon O. Doku ’05), is a broken woman whose difficult life has caged her in their small, squalid home. Because she resents her fate, she terrorizes Tillie, her other daughter, Ruth (Sasha G. Weiss ’05), and the decrepit old boarder for whom she cares (Megan L. Gaffney...
...problem with the Harvard Ad Board is that the board that judges the defendant’s fate does not get to see or hear the witnesses,” he said. “Nobody should vote on somebody’s fate if they haven’t heard the witnesses. For [the Ad Board] to reduce the number of people who do the interviews is going exactly in the wrong direction...