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...Kabul, watching three dozen men on horseback charge each other to gain possession of a disemboweled calf carcass, the axiom starts to make sense. The game is simple enough: grab the calf from the ground at one end of the field, hoist it over the saddle bow, circle the flag at the opposite end of the field and drop it back in the original chalk circle to score. What makes it difficult is that every other man on the field - and at big events they may number in the hundreds - will do anything to prevent that from happening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Afghanistan's National Pastime | 11/25/2006 | See Source »

...WASHINGTON - Dinner at swish American bistro CityZen - Private sushi and sake tasting at Café Mozu - Private tour of the National Gallery of Art - A commemorative U.S. flag that flew over the Capitol - Guided limousine tour of the city's landmarks (with bubbly) - Tickets to a Kennedy Center performance or a Verizon Center sports event

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spender Bender | 11/23/2006 | See Source »

...Kazakh (a curious answer owing to Kazazhstan’s large Muslim population). Cohen’s Borat then tries to lighten up the moment by saying that instead of following Islam he “follows the hawk” (a flippant reference to Kazakhstan’s flag...

Author: By Charles R. Drummond iv | Title: Movie for Make Laugh | 11/21/2006 | See Source »

...PLUS SIDE, HE WAS GREETED AS A LIBERATOR As Bush's visit to Vietnam invites unfortunate parallels to the Iraq war, the White House's web site illustrates its coverage of the trip with a picture of a "South" Vietnamese flag, not in use since the South surrendered to the North in 1975. We imagine Dick Cheney defended the choice, saying the war is, after all, in its "final throes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Ana Log | 11/20/2006 | See Source »

PAUL WILLIS, Pahrump, Nev., board clerk, spelling out why the town passed a new law making it illegal to fly a foreign nation's flag by itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim: Nov. 27, 2006 | 11/19/2006 | See Source »

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