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DIED. JOHN KNOWLES, 75, author and onetime journalist whose career peaked early with his first and pre-eminent novel, A Separate Peace (1960), the story of a New England prep-school boy's search for self; near Fort Lauderdale, Fla. None of his eight other novels could match the critical and popular appeal of his prizewinning first book, published when...
...rather be here than in Fort Lee, N.J. NBC had a vision of my role there, and I fought against it for three years. I need to be in an organization where I'm respected...
...agents was among those killed during a three-day revolt by Taliban prisoners at a compound near Mazar-i-Sharif. Human-rights groups called for an inquiry into the 500 or so deaths, some of them caused by U.S. air strikes, at the Qala-i-Jangi fort. The incident formed the backdrop to talks in Bonn at which key Afghan parties agreed in principle to the formation of an interim governing body...
...away the occasional autumn fly in an empty meeting room, Atta's home is crowded with tribal elders and local dignitaries paying respects and requesting his signature on a flurry of papers. In turn, both Atta and Mohaqiq are required to drive out of the city to Dostum's fort when the veteran warlord summons them. (Dostum also maintains a castle-like complex in Shiburghan, some two hours west of Mazar.) And while the popular Atta talks loftily of democracy and elections to form a new city administration, Mohaqiq's aides scoff at what they see as provincial politicking. Mohaqiq...
...been active in Afghanistan since the war's beginning, the other identified by colleagues only as "Dave"?were taken to an open area outside the cells and a group of prisoners brought to meet them. According to members of a German television crew who were later trapped in the fort with Dave, Spann asked the prisoners who they were and why they joined the Taliban. They massed around him. "Why are you here?" Spann asked one. "To kill you," came the reply as the man lunged at Spann's neck. Spann drew his pistol and shot the man dead. Dave...